Ise Ebook For The Physical Universe, 17E (180 Days)

1 The Scientific Method

How Scientists Study Nature

1.1 The Scientific Method

1.2 Why Science Is Successful

The Solar System

1.3 A Survey of the Sky

1.4 The Ptolemaic System

1.5 The Copernican System

1.6 Kepler's Laws

1.7 Why Copernicus Was Right

Universal Gravitation

1.8 What Is Gravity?

1.9 Why the Earth Is Round

1.10 The Tides

1.11 The Discovery of Neptune

How Many of What

1.12 The SI System

2 Motion

Describing Motion

2.1 Speed

2.2 Vectors

2.3 Acceleration

2.4 Distance, Time, and Acceleration

Acceleration due to Gravity

2.5 Free Fall

2.6 Air Resistance

Force and Motion

2.7 First law of Motion

2.8 Mass

2.9 Second Law of Motion

2.10 Mass and Weight

2.11 Third Law of Motion

Gravitation

2.12 Circular Motion

2.13 Newton's Law of Gravity

2.14 Artificial Satellites

3 Energy

Work

3.1 The Meaning of Work

3.2 Power

Energy

3.3 Kinetic Energy

3.4 Potential Energy

3.5 Conservation of Energy

3.6 Mechanical Advantage

3.7 The Nature of Heat

Momentum

3.8 Linear Momentum

3.9 Rockets

3.10 Angular Momentum

Relativity

3.11 Special Relativity

3.12 Rest Energy

3.13 General Relativity

4 Energy and the Future

The Energy Problem

4.1 Population and Prosperity

4.2 Energy Supply and Consumption

4.3 Climate Change

4.4 Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect

Fossil Fuels

4.5 Liquid Fuels

4.6 Natural Gas

4.7 Coal

Alternative Sources

4.8 A Nuclear World?

4.9 Renewable Energy I

4.10 Renewable Energy II

4.11 Energy Storage

4.12 Biofuels

Strategies for the Future

4.13 Conservation and Geoengineering

4.14 What Governments Must Do

5 Matter and Heat

Temperature and Heat

5.1 Temperature

5.2 Heat

5.3 Metabolic Energy

Fluids

5.4 Density

5.5 Pressure

5.6 Buoyancy

5.7 The Gas Laws

Kinetic Theory of Matter

5.8 Kinetic Theory of Gases

5.9 Molecular Motion and Temperature

5.10 Heat Transfer

Changes of State

5.11 Liquids and Solids

5.12 Evaporation and Boiling

5.13 Melting

Energy Transformations

5.14 Heat Engines

5.15 Thermodynamics

5.16 Fate of the Universe

5.17 Entropy

6 Electricity and Magnetism

Electric Charge

6.1 Positive and Negative Charge

6.2 What Is Charge?

6.3 Coulomb's Law

6.4 Force on an Uncharged Object

Electricity and Matter

6.5 Matter in Bulk

6.6 Conductors and Insulators

6.7 Superconductivity

Electric Current

6.8 The Ampere

6.9 Potential Difference

6.10 Ohm's Law

6.11 Electric Power

Magnetism

6.12 Magnets

6.13 Magnetic Field

6.14 Oersted's Experiment

6.15 Electromagnets

Using Magnetism

6.16 Magnetic Force on a Current

6.17 Electric Motors

6.18 Electromagnetic Induction

6.19 Transformers

7 Waves

Wave Motion

7.1 Water Waves

7.2 Transverse and Longitudinal Waves

7.3 Describing Waves

7.4 Standing Waves

Sound Waves

7.5 Sound

7.6 Doppler Effect

7.7 Musical Sounds

Electromagnetic Waves

7.8 Electromagnetic Waves

7.9 Types of EM Waves

7.10 Light "Rays"

Wave Behavior

7.11 Reflection

7.12 Refraction

7.13 Lenses

7.14 The Eye

7.15 Color

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