PHYSICS WORKBOOK FOR BEGINNERS
CHAPTER 1: GETTING STARTED WITH PHYSICS MEASURING THE UNIVERSE PUTTING SCIENTIFIC NOTATION TO WORK CONVERTING BETWEEN UNITS CONVERTING DISTANCES CONVERTING TIMES COUNTING SIGNIFICANT FIGURES COMING PREPARED WITH SOME ALGEBRA BEING PREPARED WITH TRIGONOMETRY ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT GETTING STARTED WITH PHYSICS CHAPTER 2: THE BIG THREE: ACCELERATION, DISTANCE, AND TIME FROM POINT A TO B: DISPLACEMENT READING THAT SPEEDOMETER PUTTING PEDAL TO METAL: ACCELERATION CONNECTING ACCELERATION, TIME, AND DISPLACEMENT CONNECTING SPEED, ACCELERATION, AND DISPLACEMENT ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT ACCELERATION, DISTANCE, AND TIME CHAPTER 3: VECTORS: KNOWING WHERE YOU’RE HEADED CREATING A VECTOR UNDERSTANDING VECTOR COMPONENTS FINDING A VECTOR’S COMPONENTS FINDING A VECTOR’S MAGNITUDE AND DIRECTION ADDING VECTORS TOGETHER HANDLING MOTION AS A VECTOR ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT VECTORS PART II: MAY THE FORCES BE WITH YOU CHAPTER 4: APPLYING FORCE NEWTON’S FIRST LAW OF MOTION NEWTON’S SECOND LAW OF MOTION FORCE IS A VECTOR CALCULATING NET FORCE AND ACCELERATION SORTING OUT WEIGHT AND MASS NEWTON’S THIRD LAW OF MOTION ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT FORCE CHAPTER 5: WORKING WITH INCLINED PLANES BREAKING RAMPS UP INTO VECTORS ACCELERATION AND INCLINED PLANES RUNNING DOWN RAMPS: SPEED IT’S A DRAG: THE COEFFICIENT OF FRICTION STARTING FROM ZERO: STATIC FRICTION ALREADY IN MOTION: KINETIC FRICTION STATIC FRICTION ALONG RAMPS KINETIC FRICTION ALONG RAMPS ACCELERATION ALONG RAMPS INCLUDING FRICTION ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT INCLINED PLANES CHAPTER 6: ROUND AND ROUND: CIRCULAR MOTION CONVERTING BETWEEN ANGLES PERIOD AND FREQUENCY GETTING INTO ANGULAR VELOCITY WHIPPING AROUND WITH ANGULAR ACCELERATION CONNECTING ANGULAR VELOCITY AND ANGULAR ACCELERATION TO ANGLES CONNECTING ANGULAR ACCELERATION AND ANGLE TO ANGULAR VELOCITY HANDLING CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION GETTING FORCEFUL: CENTRIPETAL FORCE ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT CIRCULAR MOTION PART III: BEING ENERGETIC: WORK CHAPTER 7: WORKING THE PHYSICS WAY A DIFFERENT KIND OF WORK DEALING WITH THE NET FORCE GETTING ENERGETIC: KINETIC ENERGY GETTING KINETIC ENERGY FROM WORK STORING YOUR ENERGY: POTENTIAL ENERGY POWERING IT UP ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT WORK CHAPTER 8: GETTING THINGS TO MOVE: MOMENTUM AND KINETIC ENERGY ACTING ON IMPULSE GETTING SOME MOMENTUM RELATING IMPULSE AND MOMENTUM CONSERVING MOMENTUM CONSERVING KINETIC ENERGY — OR NOT COLLISIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONS ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT MOMENTUM AND KINETIC ENERGY CHAPTER 9: WINDING IT UP: ROTATIONAL KINEMATICS FINDING TANGENTIAL SPEED TARGETING TANGENTIAL ACCELERATION ANGULAR VELOCITY AS A VECTOR ANGULAR ACCELERATION AS A VECTOR DOING THE TWIST: TORQUE THE BALANCING ACT: ROTATIONAL EQUILIBRIUM ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT ROTATIONAL KINEMATICS CHAPTER 10: GETTING DIZZY WITH ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS PUTTING NEWTON ON WHEELS MOMENTS OF INERTIA FOR EVERYONE DOING SOME ROTATIONAL WORK ROUND AND ROUND: ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY GETTING WORKING WITH RAMPS AGAIN CAN’T STOP THIS: ANGULAR MOMENTUM ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT ROTATIONAL DYNAMICS CHAPTER 11: POTENTIAL AND KINETIC ENERGY TOGETHER: SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION HOOKING INTO HOOKE’S LAW SIMPLY SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION GETTING PERIODIC CONSIDERING VELOCITY FIGURING THE ACCELERATION BOUNCING AROUND WITH SPRINGS TALKING ABOUT ENERGY FOLLOWING THE TICKTOCK OF PENDULUMS ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION PART IV: OBEYING THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS CHAPTER 12: YOU’RE GETTING WARM: THERMODYNAMICS CONVERTING BETWEEN TEMPERATURE SCALES GETTING BIGGER: LINEAR EXPANSION PLUMPING IT UP: VOLUME EXPANSION GETTING SPECIFIC WITH HEAT CAPACITY CHANGES OF PHASE: LATENT HEAT ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT THERMODYNAMICS CHAPTER 13: UNDER PRESSURE: FROM SOLID TO LIQUID TO GAS HOW HEAT TRAVELS: CONVECTION HOW HEAT TRAVELS: CONDUCTION HOW HEAT TRAVELS: RADIATION A BIGGIE: AVOGADRO’S NUMBER IDEALLY SPEAKING: THE IDEAL GAS LAW MOLECULES IN MOTION ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT PRESSURE CHAPTER 14: ALL ABOUT HEAT AND WORK THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS CONSTANT PRESSURE: ISOBARIC PROCESSES CONSTANT VOLUME: ISOCHORIC PROCESSES CONSTANT TEMPERATURE: ISOTHERMAL PROCESSES AT CONSTANT HEAT: ADIABATIC HEAT MOVES: THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS MAKING HEAT WORK: HEAT ENGINES MAXIMUM EFFICIENCY: CARNOT HEAT ENGINES THE THIRD LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT HEAT AND WORK PART V: ZAP: ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM CHAPTER 15: STATIC ELECTRICITY: ELECTRONS AT REST TALKING ABOUT ELECTRIC CHARGES GETTING FORCEFUL WITH CHARGES ELECTRICAL FORCES ARE VECTORS FORCE AT A DISTANCE: ELECTRIC FIELDS EASY ELECTRIC FIELD: PARALLEL PLATE CAPACITORS RAMPING UP SOME VOLTAGE ELECTRIC POTENTIAL FROM POINT CHARGES ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT STATIC ELECTRICITY CHAPTER 16: ELECTRONS IN MOTION: CIRCUITS ELECTRONS IN A WHIRL: CURRENT GIVING YOU SOME RESISTANCE: OHM’S LAW ONE AFTER THE OTHER: SERIES CIRCUITS ALL FOR ONE: PARALLEL CIRCUITS THE WHOLE STORY: KIRCHHOFF’S RULES ANSWERS TO PROBLEMS ABOUT CIRCUITS PART VI: THE PART OF TENS CHAPTER 17: TEN COMMON MISTAKES PEOPLE MAKE WHEN SOLVING PROBLEMS MIXING UNITS EXPRESSING THE ANSWER IN THE WRONG UNITS SWAPPING RADIANS AND DEGREES GETTING SINES AND COSINES MIXED UP NOT TREATING VECTORS AS VECTORS NEGLECTING LATENT HEAT GETTING REFRACTION ANGLES WRONG GETTING THE SIGNS WRONG IN KIRCHHOFF LOOPS ADDING RESISTORS INCORRECTLY USING THE WRONG RAYS IN RAY DIAGRAMS CHAPTER 18: TEN TOP ONLINE PHYSICS TUTORIALS AND RESOURCES THE PHYSICS CLASSROOM THINKQUEST HYPERPHYSICS ROMAN GOC’S PHYSICS TUTORIAL PHYSICS 24/7 TUTORIAL UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH’S TUTORIAL TUTOR4PHYSICS KENNETH R KOEHLER’S TUTORIAL PAGE FEAR OF PHYSICS’S PROBLEM SOLVER VECTOR RESOLVER