TY - BOOK AU - Giancoli Douglas C. TI - Physics for scientists and engineers SN - 0130179752 PY - 2000/// CY - New Jersey PB - Prentice Hall KW - Physics N1 - Includes index; Introduction, measurement, estimating -- Describing motion: Kinematics in one dimensions -- Kinematics in two dimensions; Vectors -- Dynamics Newton's laws of Motion -- Futher Applications of Newton's Laws -- Gravitation and Newton's synthesis -- Work and energy -- Conservation of energy -- Linear momentum and Collisions -- Rotational motion about a Fixed Axis -- General Rotation -- Static equilibrium; Elasticity and Fracture -- Fluids -- Oscillations -- Wave motion -- Sound -- Temperature, thermal expansion, and the ideal gas law -- Kinetic theory of gases -- Heat and the first law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics Heat Engines -- Electric charge and electric field -- Gauss's law -- Electric potential -- Capacitance, dielectrics, electric energy storage -- Electric currents and resistance -- DC circuits -- Magnetism -- Sources of magnetic field -- Electromagnetic induction and Faraday's Law -- Inductance; and electromagnetic oscillations -- AC circuits -- Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves -- Light: Reflection and Refraction -- Lenses and optical instruments -- Wave nature of light; Interference -- Diffraction and polarization -- Special theory of relativity -- Early quantum theory and models of the atom -- Quantum Mechanics -- Quantum Mechanics of Atoms -- Molecules and Solids -- Nuclear Physics and Radioactivity -- Nuclear Energy: Effects and Uses of Radiation -- Elementary Particles -- Astrophysics and Cosmology -- Appendices ER -