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    Calculus-Based Physics I

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    Jeffrey Schnick, Saint Anselm College

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    Publisher: Jeffrey W. Schnick

    Language: English

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    Reviewed by Kyle McLelland, Instructor, Chemeketa Community College on 2/8/17

    Calculus-Based Physics I by Jeffery W. Schnick briefly covers each topic students would cover in a first-term calculus-based physics course. The chapters are short and offer few example problems for the students to work through and no homework... read more

    Table of Contents

    • 1 Mathematical Prelude
    • 2 Conservation of Mechanical Energy I: Kinetic Energy & Gravitational Potential Energy
    • 3 Conservation of Mechanical Energy II: Springs, Rotational Kinetic Energy
    • 4 Conservation of Momentum
    • 5 Conservation of Angular Momentum
    • 6 One-Dimensional Motion (Motion Along a Line): Definitions and Mathematics
    • 7 One-Dimensional Motion: The Constant Acceleration Equations
    • 8 One-Dimensional Motion: Collision Type II
    • 9 One-Dimensional Motion Graphs
    • 10 Constant Acceleration Problems in Two Dimensions
    • 11 Relative Velocity
    • 12 Gravitational Force Near the Surface of the Earth, First Brush with Newton's 2nd Law
    • 13 Freefall, a.k.a. Projectile Motion
    • 14 Newton's Laws #1: Using Free Body Diagrams
    • 15 Newton's Laws #2: Kinds of Forces, Creating Free Body Diagrams
    • 16 Newton's Laws #3: Components, Friction, Ramps, Pulleys, and Strings
    • 17 The Universal Law of Gravitation
    • 18 Circular Motion: Centripetal Acceleration
    • 19 Rotational Motion Variables, Tangential Acceleration, Constant Angular Acceleration
    • 20 Torque & Circular Motion
    • 21 Vectors: The Cross Product & Torque
    • 22 Center of Mass, Moment of Inertia
    • 23 Statics
    • 24 Work and Energy
    • 25 Potential Energy, Conservation of Energy, Power
    • 26 Impulse and Momentum
    • 27 Oscillations: Introduction, Mass on a Spring
    • 28 Oscillations: The Simple Pendulum, Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion
    • 29 Waves: Characteristics, Types, Energy
    • 30 Wave Function, Interference, Standing Waves
    • 31 Strings, Air Columns
    • 32 Beats, The Doppler Effect
    • 33 Fluids: Pressure, Density, Archimedes' Principle
    • 34 Pascal's Principle, the Continuity Equation, and Bernoulli's Principle
    • 35 Temperature, Internal Energy, Heat, and Specific Heat Capacity
    • 36 Heat: Phase Changes
    • 37 The First Law of Thermodynamics

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    • Jeffrey W. Schnick
    • About the Book

      Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students.

      About the Contributors

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      Jeffrey Schnick, PhD is an assistant professor at Saint Anselm College.

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