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Schaum's outline of theory and problems of physics for engineering and science / by Dare A. Wells and Harold S. Slusher.

By: Wells, Dare A, 1899-.
Contributor(s): Slusher, Harold Schultz.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: Schaum's outline series.Publisher: New York : McGraw-Hill, c1983Description: 359 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0070692548.Subject(s): Physics | Physics -- Problems, exercises, etcDDC classification: 530
Contents:
Review of background material -- Motion of a particle along a straight line with constant acceleration -- Motion of a particle in a plane with constant acceleration -- Newton's laws of motion: an introduction -- Newton's laws of motion: more advanced problems -- Momentum, impulse, and relative motion -- Motion in a plane along a curved path -- Work, kinetic energy and power -- Potential energy and energy conservation -- Statistics of rigid bodies -- Motion of a rigid body -- Angular momentum -- Gravitation -- Elasticity and harmonic motion -- Fluid statics -- Fluid dynamics -- Gases thermal motion and the first law of thermodynamics -- Thermal properties of matter -- Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics -- Wave phenomena -- Sound waves -- Electric charge and Coulomb's law -- The electric field established by charges at rest -- Electric flux and Gauss's law -- Electric potential -- Electric current, resistance and power -- Kirchhoff's laws for resistive circuits -- Magnetic forces on moving charges -- Sources of the magnetic field -- Faraday's law of induced electromotive force -- Inductance -- Magnetic fields in material media -- Time response of simple electric circuits -- Steady-state solutions for simple AC circuits -- Reflection, refraction and polarization of light -- Geometrical optics -- Interference and diffraction of light -- Special relativity -- Photons -- The Bohr atom -- The nucleus.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
General Lending MTU Bishopstown Library Lending 530 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00037813
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A problem oriented book to be used as a supplement with college books in university physics courses at the calculus level. Included are 695 solved problems.

Includes index.

Review of background material -- Motion of a particle along a straight line with constant acceleration -- Motion of a particle in a plane with constant acceleration -- Newton's laws of motion: an introduction -- Newton's laws of motion: more advanced problems -- Momentum, impulse, and relative motion -- Motion in a plane along a curved path -- Work, kinetic energy and power -- Potential energy and energy conservation -- Statistics of rigid bodies -- Motion of a rigid body -- Angular momentum -- Gravitation -- Elasticity and harmonic motion -- Fluid statics -- Fluid dynamics -- Gases thermal motion and the first law of thermodynamics -- Thermal properties of matter -- Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics -- Wave phenomena -- Sound waves -- Electric charge and Coulomb's law -- The electric field established by charges at rest -- Electric flux and Gauss's law -- Electric potential -- Electric current, resistance and power -- Kirchhoff's laws for resistive circuits -- Magnetic forces on moving charges -- Sources of the magnetic field -- Faraday's law of induced electromotive force -- Inductance -- Magnetic fields in material media -- Time response of simple electric circuits -- Steady-state solutions for simple AC circuits -- Reflection, refraction and polarization of light -- Geometrical optics -- Interference and diffraction of light -- Special relativity -- Photons -- The Bohr atom -- The nucleus.

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