College Physics 12th edition

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• Chapter 1: Units, Trigonometry, and Vectors
  • 1.1: Standards of Measurement
  • 1.2: Measurement Uncertainty and Estimation
  • 1.3: Math Review
  • 1.4: Vectors
  • 1.5: Overview of Physics
  • 1: Additional Problems
  • 1: Conceptual Questions
  • 1: Active Examples
  • 1: Training Tutorials
  • 1: Quick Quizzes
  • 1: PreLecture Explorations
  • 1: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 1: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 1: Digital Workbooks
  • 1: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 2: Motion in One Dimension
  • 2.1: Displacement, Velocity, and Acceleration
  • 2.2: Motion Diagrams and Graphs
  • 2.3: One-Dimensional Motion with Constant Acceleration
  • 2.4: Freely Falling Objects
  • 2: Additional Problems
  • 2: Conceptual Questions
  • 2: Active Examples
  • 2: Training Tutorials
  • 2: Quick Quizzes
  • 2: PreLecture Explorations
  • 2: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 2: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 2: Digital Workbooks
  • 2: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 3: Motion in Two Dimensions
  • 3.1: Displacement
  • 3.2: Velocity, Speed, and Acceleration
  • 3.3: Two-Dimensional Motion
  • 3.4: Relative Velocity
  • 3: Additional Problems
  • 3: Conceptual Questions
  • 3: Active Examples
  • 3: Training Tutorials
  • 3: Quick Quizzes
  • 3: PreLecture Explorations
  • 3: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 3: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 3: Digital Workbooks
  • 3: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 4: Newton's Laws of Motion
  • 4.1: Forces and Newton's First Law
  • 4.2: Newton's Second Law, Gravity, and Weight
  • 4.3: Newton's Third Law
  • 4.4: The Normal Force
  • 4.5: Friction Forces
  • 4.6: Tension Forces
  • 4.7: Applications of Newton's Laws
  • 4.8: Two-Body Problems
  • 4: Additional Problems
  • 4: Conceptual Questions
  • 4: Active Examples
  • 4: Training Tutorials
  • 4: Quick Quizzes
  • 4: PreLecture Explorations
  • 4: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 4: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 4: Digital Workbooks
  • 4: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 5: Energy
  • 5.1: Work
  • 5.2: Kinetic Energy and the Work–Energy Theorem
  • 5.3: Conservative and Nonconservative Forces
  • 5.4: Gravitational Potential Energy
  • 5.5: Gravity and Nonconservative Forces
  • 5.6: Spring Potential Energy
  • 5.7: Systems and Energy Conservation
  • 5.8: Power
  • 5.9: Work Done by a Varying Force
  • 5: Additional Problems
  • 5: Conceptual Questions
  • 5: Active Examples
  • 5: Training Tutorials
  • 5: Quick Quizzes
  • 5: PreLecture Explorations
  • 5: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 5: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 5: Digital Workbooks
  • 5: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 6: Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions
  • 6.1: Momentum and Impulse
  • 6.2: Conservation of Momentum
  • 6.3: Collisions in One Dimension
  • 6.4: Glancing Collisions
  • 6.5: Rocket Propulsion
  • 6: Additional Problems
  • 6: Conceptual Questions
  • 6: Active Examples
  • 6: Training Tutorials
  • 6: Quick Quizzes
  • 6: PreLecture Explorations
  • 6: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 6: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 6: Digital Workbooks
  • 6: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 7: Rotational Motion and Gravitation
  • 7.1: Angular Velocity and Angular Acceleration
  • 7.2: Rotational Motion Under Constant Angular Acceleration
  • 7.3: Tangential Velocity, Tangential Acceleration, and Centripetal Acceleration
  • 7.4: Newton's Second Law for Uniform Circular Motion
  • 7.5: Newtonian Gravitation
  • 7: Additional Problems
  • 7: Conceptual Questions
  • 7: Active Examples
  • 7: Training Tutorials
  • 7: Quick Quizzes
  • 7: PreLecture Explorations
  • 7: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 7: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 7: Digital Workbooks
  • 7: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 8: Rotational Equilibrium and Dynamics
  • 8.1: Torque
  • 8.2: Center of Mass and Its Motion
  • 8.3: Torque and the Two Conditions for Equilibrium
  • 8.4: The Rotational Second Law of Motion
  • 8.5: Rotational Kinetic Energy
  • 8.6: Angular Momentum
  • 8: Additional Problems
  • 8: Conceptual Questions
  • 8: Active Examples
  • 8: Training Tutorials
  • 8: Quick Quizzes
  • 8: PreLecture Explorations
  • 8: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 8: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 8: Digital Workbooks
  • 8: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 9: Fluids and Solids
  • 9.1: States of Matter
  • 9.2: Density and Pressure
  • 9.3: Variation of Pressure with Depth
  • 9.4: Pressure Measurements
  • 9.5: Buoyant Forces and Archimedes' Principle
  • 9.6: Fluids in Motion
  • 9.7: Other Applications of Fluid Dynamics
  • 9.8: Surface Tension, Capillary Action, and Viscous Fluid Flow
  • 9.9: Transport Phenomena
  • 9.10: The Deformation of Solids
  • 9: Additional Problems
  • 9: Conceptual Questions
  • 9: Active Examples
  • 9: Training Tutorials
  • 9: Quick Quizzes
  • 9: PreLecture Explorations
  • 9: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 9: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 9: Digital Workbooks
  • 9: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 10: Thermal Physics
  • 10.1: Temperature and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
  • 10.2: Thermometers and Temperature Scales
  • 10.3: Thermal Expansion of Solids and Liquids
  • 10.4: The Ideal Gas Law
  • 10.5: The Kinetic Theory of Gases
  • 10: Additional Problems
  • 10: Conceptual Questions
  • 10: Active Examples
  • 10: Training Tutorials
  • 10: Quick Quizzes
  • 10: PreLecture Explorations
  • 10: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 10: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 10: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 11: Energy in Thermal Processes
  • 11.1: Heat and Internal Energy
  • 11.2: Specific Heat
  • 11.3: Calorimetry
  • 11.4: Latent Heat and Phase Change
  • 11.5: Energy Transfer
  • 11.6: Climate Change and Greenhouse Gases
  • 11: Additional Problems
  • 11: Conceptual Questions
  • 11: Active Examples
  • 11: Training Tutorials
  • 11: Quick Quizzes
  • 11: PreLecture Explorations
  • 11: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 11: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 11: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 12: The Laws of Thermodynamics
  • 12.1: Work in Thermodynamic Processes
  • 12.2: The First Law of Thermodynamics
  • 12.3: Thermal Processes in Gases
  • 12.4: Heat Engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics
  • 12.5: Entropy
  • 12.6: Human Metabolism
  • 12: Additional Problems
  • 12: Conceptual Questions
  • 12: Active Examples
  • 12: Training Tutorials
  • 12: Quick Quizzes
  • 12: PreLecture Explorations
  • 12: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 12: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 12: Digital Workbooks
  • 12: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 13: Vibrations and Waves
  • 13.1: Hooke's Law
  • 13.2: Elastic Potential Energy
  • 13.3: Concepts of Oscillation Rates in Simple Harmonic Motion
  • 13.4: Position, Velocity, and Acceleration as Functions of Time
  • 13.5: Motion of a Pendulum
  • 13.6: Damped Oscillations
  • 13.7: Waves
  • 13.8: Frequency, Amplitude, and Wavelength
  • 13.9: The Speed of Waves on Strings
  • 13.10: Interference of Waves
  • 13.11: Reflection of Waves
  • 13: Additional Problems
  • 13: Conceptual Questions
  • 13: Active Examples
  • 13: Training Tutorials
  • 13: Quick Quizzes
  • 13: PreLecture Explorations
  • 13: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 13: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 13: Digital Workbooks
  • 13: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 14: Sound
  • 14.1: Producing a Sound Wave
  • 14.2: Characteristics of Sound Waves
  • 14.3: The Speed of Sound
  • 14.4: Energy and Intensity of Sound Waves
  • 14.5: Spherical and Plane Waves
  • 14.6: The Doppler Effect
  • 14.7: Interference of Sound Waves
  • 14.8: Standing Waves
  • 14.9: Forced Vibrations and Resonance
  • 14.10: Standing Waves in Air Columns
  • 14.11: Beats
  • 14.12: Quality of Sound
  • 14.13: The Ear
  • 14: Additional Problems
  • 14: Conceptual Questions
  • 14: Active Examples
  • 14: Training Tutorials
  • 14: Quick Quizzes
  • 14: PreLecture Explorations
  • 14: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 14: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 14: Digital Workbooks
  • 14: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 15: Electric Forces and Fields
  • 15.1: Electric Charges, Insulators, and Conductors
  • 15.2: Coulomb's Law
  • 15.3: Electric Fields
  • 15.4: Electric Field Lines
  • 15.5: Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium
  • 15.6: The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment
  • 15.7: The Van de Graaff Generator
  • 15.8: Electric Flux and Gauss' Law
  • 15: Additional Problems
  • 15: Conceptual Questions
  • 15: Active Examples
  • 15: Training Tutorials
  • 15: Quick Quizzes
  • 15: PreLecture Explorations
  • 15: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 15: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 15: Digital Workbooks
  • 15: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 16: Electrical Energy and Capacitance
  • 16.1: Electric Potential Energy and Electric Potential
  • 16.2: Electric Potential and Potential Energy of Point Charges
  • 16.3: Potentials, Charged Conductors, and Equipotential Surfaces
  • 16.4: Applications
  • 16.5: Capacitors
  • 16.6: Combinations of Capacitors
  • 16.7: Energy in a Capacitor
  • 16.8: Capacitors with Dielectrics
  • 16: Additional Problems
  • 16: Conceptual Questions
  • 16: Active Examples
  • 16: Training Tutorials
  • 16: Quick Quizzes
  • 16: PreLecture Explorations
  • 16: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 16: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 16: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 17: Current and Resistance
  • 17.1: Electric Current
  • 17.2: A Microscopic View: Current and Drift Speed
  • 17.3: Current and Voltage Measurements In Circuits
  • 17.4: Resistance, Resistivity, and Ohm's Law
  • 17.5: Temperature Variation of Resistance
  • 17.6: Electrical Energy and Power
  • 17.7: Superconductors
  • 17.8: Electrical Activity in the Heart
  • 17: Additional Problems
  • 17: Conceptual Questions
  • 17: Active Examples
  • 17: Training Tutorials
  • 17: Quick Quizzes
  • 17: PreLecture Explorations
  • 17: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 17: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 17: Digital Workbooks
  • 17: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 18: Direct-Current Circuits
  • 18.1: Sources of emf
  • 18.2: Resistors in Series
  • 18.3: Resistors in Parallel
  • 18.4: Kirchhoff's Rules and Complex DC Circuits
  • 18.5: RC Circuits
  • 18.6: Household Circuits
  • 18.7: Electrical Safety
  • 18.8: Conduction of Electrical Signals by Neurons
  • 18: Additional Problems
  • 18: Conceptual Questions
  • 18: Active Examples
  • 18: Training Tutorials
  • 18: Quick Quizzes
  • 18: PreLecture Explorations
  • 18: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 18: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 18: Digital Workbooks
  • 18: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 19: Magnetism
  • 19.1: Magnets
  • 19.2: Earth's Magnetic Field
  • 19.3: Magnetic Fields
  • 19.4: Motion of a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field
  • 19.5: Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor
  • 19.6: Magnetic Torque
  • 19.7: Ampère's Law
  • 19.8: Magnetic Force Between Two Parallel Conductors
  • 19.9: Magnetic Fields of Current Loops and Solenoids
  • 19.10: Magnetic Domains
  • 19: Additional Problems
  • 19: Conceptual Questions
  • 19: Active Examples
  • 19: Training Tutorials
  • 19: Quick Quizzes
  • 19: PreLecture Explorations
  • 19: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 19: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 19: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 20: Induced Voltages and Inductance
  • 20.1: Induced emf and Magnetic Flux
  • 20.2: Faraday's Law of Induction and Lenz's Law
  • 20.3: Motional emf
  • 20.4: Generators
  • 20.5: Self-Inductance
  • 20.6: RL Circuits
  • 20.7: Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field
  • 20: Additional Problems
  • 20: Conceptual Questions
  • 20: Active Examples
  • 20: Training Tutorials
  • 20: Quick Quizzes
  • 20: PreLecture Explorations
  • 20: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 20: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 20: Digital Workbooks
  • 20: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 21: Alternating-Current Circuits and Electromagnetic Waves
  • 21.1: Resistors in an AC Circuit
  • 21.2: Capacitors in an AC Circuit
  • 21.3: Inductors in an AC Circuit
  • 21.4: The RLC Series Circuit
  • 21.5: Power in an AC Circuit
  • 21.6: Resonance in a Series RLC Circuit
  • 21.7: The Transformer
  • 21.8: Maxwell's Predictions
  • 21.9: Hertz's Confirmation of Maxwell's Predictions
  • 21.10: Production of Electromagnetic Waves by an Antenna
  • 21.11: Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
  • 21.12: The Spectrum of Electromagnetic Waves
  • 21.13: The Doppler Effect for Electromagnetic Waves
  • 21: Additional Problems
  • 21: Conceptual Questions
  • 21: Active Examples
  • 21: Training Tutorials
  • 21: Quick Quizzes
  • 21: PreLecture Explorations
  • 21: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 21: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 21: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 22: Reflection and Refraction of Light
  • 22.1: The Nature of Light
  • 22.2: Reflection and Refraction
  • 22.3: The Law of Refraction
  • 22.4: Total Internal Reflection
  • 22.5: Huygens' Principle
  • 22.6: Dispersion and Prisms
  • 22.7: The Rainbow
  • 22: Additional Problems
  • 22: Conceptual Questions
  • 22: Active Examples
  • 22: Training Tutorials
  • 22: Quick Quizzes
  • 22: PreLecture Explorations
  • 22: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 22: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 22: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 23: Mirrors and Lenses
  • 23.1: Flat Mirrors
  • 23.2: Images Formed by Spherical Mirrors
  • 23.3: Thin Lenses
  • 23.4: Lens and Mirror Aberrations
  • 23.5: Images Formed by Refraction
  • 23: Additional Problems
  • 23: Conceptual Questions
  • 23: Active Examples
  • 23: Training Tutorials
  • 23: Quick Quizzes
  • 23: PreLecture Explorations
  • 23: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 23: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 23: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 24: Wave Optics
  • 24.1: Conditions for Interference
  • 24.2: Young's Double-Slit Experiment
  • 24.3: Diffraction
  • 24.4: Diffraction Gratings
  • 24.5: Single-Slit Diffraction
  • 24.6: Change of Phase Due to Reflection
  • 24.7: Interference in Thin Films
  • 24.8: Polarization of Light Waves
  • 24: Additional Problems
  • 24: Conceptual Questions
  • 24: Active Examples
  • 24: Training Tutorials
  • 24: Quick Quizzes
  • 24: PreLecture Explorations
  • 24: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 24: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 24: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 25: Optical Instruments
  • 25.1: The Camera
  • 25.2: The Eye
  • 25.3: The Simple Magnifier
  • 25.4: The Compound Microscope
  • 25.5: The Telescope
  • 25.6: Resolution of Single-Slit and Circular Apertures
  • 25.7: The Michelson Interferometer
  • 25: Additional Problems
  • 25: Conceptual Questions
  • 25: Active Examples
  • 25: Training Tutorials
  • 25: Quick Quizzes
  • 25: PreLecture Explorations
  • 25: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 25: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 25: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 26: Relativity
  • 26.1: Galilean Relativity
  • 26.2: The Speed of Light
  • 26.3: Einstein's Principle of Relativity
  • 26.4: Consequences of Special Relativity
  • 26.5: Relativistic Momentum
  • 26.6: Relative Velocity in Special Relativity
  • 26.7: Relativistic Energy and the Equivalence of Mass and Energy
  • 26.8: General Relativity
  • 26: Additional Problems
  • 26: Conceptual Questions
  • 26: Active Examples
  • 26: Training Tutorials
  • 26: Quick Quizzes
  • 26: PreLecture Explorations
  • 26: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 26: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 26: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 27: Quantum Physics
  • 27.1: Blackbody Radiation and Planck's Hypothesis
  • 27.2: The Photoelectric Effect and the Particle Theory of Light
  • 27.3: X-Rays
  • 27.4: Diffraction of X-Rays by Crystals
  • 27.5: The Compton Effect
  • 27.6: The Dual Nature of Light and Matter
  • 27.7: The Wave Function
  • 27.8: The Uncertainty Principle
  • 27: Additional Problems
  • 27: Conceptual Questions
  • 27: Active Examples
  • 27: Training Tutorials
  • 27: Quick Quizzes
  • 27: PreLecture Explorations
  • 27: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 27: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
  • 27: Digital Workbooks
  • 27: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 28: Atomic Physics
  • 28.1: Early Models of the Atom
  • 28.2: Atomic Spectra
  • 28.3: The Bohr Model
  • 28.4: Quantum Mechanics and the Hydrogen Atom
  • 28.5: The Exclusion Principle and the Periodic Table
  • 28.6: Characteristic X-Rays
  • 28.7: Atomic Transitions and Lasers
  • 28: Additional Problems
  • 28: Conceptual Questions
  • 28: Active Examples
  • 28: Training Tutorials
  • 28: Quick Quizzes
  • 28: PreLecture Explorations
  • 28: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 28: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 28: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 29: Nuclear Physics
  • 29.1: Some Properties of Nuclei
  • 29.2: Binding Energy
  • 29.3: Radioactivity
  • 29.4: The Decay Processes
  • 29.5: Natural Radioactivity
  • 29.6: Nuclear Reactions
  • 29.7: Medical Applications of Radiation
  • 29: Additional Problems
  • 29: Conceptual Questions
  • 29: Active Examples
  • 29: Training Tutorials
  • 29: Quick Quizzes
  • 29: PreLecture Explorations
  • 29: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 29: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 29: Extra Problems
  
  
• Chapter 30: Nuclear Energy and Elementary Particles
  • 30.1: Nuclear Fission
  • 30.2: Nuclear Fusion
  • 30.3: Elementary Particles and the Fundamental Forces
  • 30.4: Positrons and Other Antiparticles
  • 30.5: Classification of Particles
  • 30.6: Conservation Laws
  • 30.7: The Eightfold Way
  • 30.8: Quarks and Color
  • 30.9: Electroweak Theory and the Standard Model
  • 30.10: The Cosmic Connection
  • 30.11: Unanswered Questions in Cosmology
  • 30.12: Problems and Perspectives
  • 30: Additional Problems
  • 30: Conceptual Questions
  • 30: Active Examples
  • 30: Training Tutorials
  • 30: Quick Quizzes
  • 30: PreLecture Explorations
  • 30: Interactive Video Vignettes
  • 30: Scaffolding the Essentials of Physics
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  • 30: Extra Problems