GENERAL PHYSICS: A TEXT-BOOK ON THE FUNDAMENTAL PROPERTIES OF MATTER
CONTENTS A BRIEF REVIEW OF CALCULUS FOR PHYSICS | COORDINATE SYSTEMS | SCALAR AND VECTOR QUANTITIES | SOME PROPERTIES OF VECTORS | EQUALITY OF TWO VECTORS | ADDING VECTORS | NEGATIVE OF A VECTOR | SUBTRACTING VECTORS | MULTIPLYING A VECTOR BY A SCALAR | COMPONENTS OF A VECTOR AND UNIT VECTORS | VECTOR MULTIPLICATION | DOT PRODUCT OF TWO VECTORS | CROSS PRODUCT OF TWO VECTORS | SOME SCIENTIFIC NOTATIONS | SOME BASIC RULES OF ALGEBRA | POWER | FACTORING | QUADRATIC EQUATIONS | LINEAR EQUATIONS | LOGARITHMS | GEOMETRY | TRIGONOMETRY | DERIVATIVE | DERIVATIVE OF THE PRODUCT OF TWO FUNCTIONS | DERIVATIVE OF THE SUM OF TWO FUNCTIONS | THE CHAIN RULE OF DIFFERENTIAL CALCULUS | THE SECOND DERIVATIVE | EXERCISES | PHYSICS AND MEASUREMENT | STANDARDS OF LENGTH, MASS, AND TIME | LENGTH | MASS | TIME | BRITISH ENGINEERING SYSTEM OF UNITS | DENSITY | DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS | CONVERSION OF UNITS | SIGNIFICANT FIGURES | ONE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION | DISPLACEMENT | THE AVERAGE VELOCITY AND SPEED | GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE VELOCITY | INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY AND SPEED | GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY | AVERAGE ACCELERATION | GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF THE AVERAGE ACCELERATION | INSTANTANEOUS ACCELERATION | GRAPHICAL INTERPRETATION OF INSTANTANEOUS ACCELERATION | ONE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION WITH CONSTANT ACCELERATION | KINEMATIC EQUATIONS OF MOTION | FREELY FALLING OBJECTS | TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION | THE DISPLACEMENT, VELOCITY, AND ACCELERATION VECTORS | THREE-DIMENSIONAL MOTION WITH CONSTANT ACCELERATION | PROJECTILE MOTION | UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION | NON-UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION | RELATIVE MOTION | THE LAWS OF MOTION | THE CONCEPT OF FORCE | MEASURING THE STRENGTH OF A FORCE | NEWTON’S FIRST LAW AND INERTIA FRAME | NEWTON’S SECOND LAW OF MOTION | NEWTON’S THIRD LAW | MASS AND WEIGHT | ELASTIC FORCES | FRICTION AND DISSIPATION FORCES | STATIC FRICTION | KINETIC FRICTION | CASE 1 | CASE 2 | CIRCULAR MOTION AND OTHER APPLICATIONS OF NEWTON’S LAWS | NEWTON’S SECOND LAW APPLIED TO UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION | MOTION IN ACCELERATED FRAMES | WORK AND KINETIC ENERGY | WORK DONE BY A CONSTANT FORCE | THE WORK DONE BY NON-CONSTANT FORCES | WORK DONE BY A SPRING | WORK–ENERGY RELATION | POTENTIAL ENERGY AND CONSERVATION OF ENERGY | POTENTIAL ENERGY | GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY | ELASTIC POTENTIAL ENERGY | CONSERVATIVE AND NON-CONSERVATIVE FORCES | CONSERVATIVE FORCES | NON-CONSERVATIVE FORCES | CONSERVATIVE FORCES AND POTENTIAL ENERGY | CONSERVATION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY | WORK DONE BY AN APPLIED FORCE | LINEAR MOMENTUM AND COLLISIONS | LINEAR MOMENTUM AND NEWTON’S SECOND LAW | CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM FOR A TWO-PARTICLE SYSTEM | IMPULSE AND MOMENTUM | COLLISIONS | ELASTIC COLLISIONS | INELASTIC COLLISION | CENTER OF MASS | MOTION OF A SYSTEM OF PARTICLES | ROTATION OF A RIGID BODY | ANGULAR DISPLACEMENT, VELOCITY, AND ACCELERATION | ROTATIONAL KINEMATICS | ANGULAR AND LINEAR QUANTITIES | ROTATION ENERGY | CALCULATION OF THE MOMENTS OF INERTIA | TORQUE | RELATION BETWEEN THE TORQUE AND ANGULAR ACCELERATION | WORK, POWER AND ENERGY IN ROTATIONAL MOTION | ROLLING MOTION AND ANGULAR MOMENTUM | ROLLING MOTION OF A RIGID BODY | ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A PARTICLE | ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A SYSTEM OF PARTICLES | ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A RIGID BODY | PRECESSIONAL MOTION | STATIC EQUILIBRIUM AND ELASTICITY | CONDITIONS FOR EQUILIBRIUM | ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF SOLIDS | STRESS | STRAIN | BULK MODULUS | ELASTICITY AND PLASTICITY | OSCILLATORY MOTION | SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION | ENERGY OF THE SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR | SIMPLE PENDULUM | PHYSICAL PENDULUM | GRAVITY | UNIVERSAL LAW OF GRAVITATION | SECOND LAW OF NEWTON AND GRAVITY | GAUSS’S LAW OF GRAVITY | GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL | KEPLER’S LAWS | FIRST KEPLER LAW | KEPLER’S SECOND LAW | KEPLER’S THIRD LAW | ORBITS OF PLANETS, SPACESHIPS, AND SATELLITES |