Newtonian Physics

Benjamin Crowell
283 pages (Fall 2006); 13.9MB download
Benjamin Crowell; ISBN: 0-9704670-1-X

DESCRIPTION

Newtonian Physics: Book 1 in the Light and Matter Series of Physics Textbooks

Contents

0.0 Introduction and Review
0.1 The Scientific Method
0.2 What Is Physics?
0.3 How to Learn Physics
0.4 Self-Evaluation
0.5 Basic of the Metric System
0.6 The Newton, the Metric Unit of Force
0.7 Less Common Metric Prefixes
0.8 Scientific Notation
0.9 Conversions
0.10 Significant Figures

1.0 Scaling and Order-of-Magnitude Estimates
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Scaling of Area and Volume
1.3 Scaling Applied to Biology
1.4 Order-of-Magnitude Estimates Motion in One Dimension

2.0 Velocity and Relative Motion
2.1 Types of Motion
2.2 Describing Distance and Time
2.3 Graphs of Motion; Velocity.
2.4 The Principle of Inertia
2.5 Addition of Velocities
2.6 Graphs of Velocity Versus Time
2.7 Applications of Calculus

3.0 Acceleration and Free Fall
3.1 The Motion of Falling Objects
3.2 Acceleration
3.3 Positive and negative acceleration
3.4 Varying Acceleration
3.5 The Area Under the Velocity-Time Graph
3.6 Algebraic Results for Constant Acceleration
3.7 Biological Effects of Weightlessness
3.8 Applications of Calculus

4.0 Force and Motion
4.1 Force
4.2 Newton's first law
4.3 Newton's Second Law
4.4 What Force Is Not
4.5 Inertial and Noninertial Frames of Reference

5.0 Analysis of Forces
5.1 Newton's Third Law
5.2 Classification and Behavior of Forces
5.3 Analysis of Forces
5.4 Transmission of Forces by Low-Mass Objects
5.5 Objects Under Strain
5.6 Simple Machines: The Pulley Motion in Three Dimensions

6.0 Newton's Laws in Three Dimensions
6.1 Forces Have No Perpendicular Effects
6.2 Coordinates and Components
6.3 Newton's Laws in Three Dimensions

7.0 Vectors
7.1 Vector Notation
7.2 Calculations with Magnitude and Direction
7.3 Techniques for Adding Vectors
7.4 Unit Vector Notation
7.5 Rotational Invariance

8.0 Vectors and Motion
8.1 The Velocity Vector
8.2 The Acceleration Vector
8.3 The Force Vector and Simple Machines
8.4 Calculus With Vectors
9 Circular Motion
9.1 Conceptual Framework for Circular Motion
9.2 Uniform Circular Motion
9.3 Nonuniform Circular Motion

10.0 Gravity
10.1 Kepler's Laws
10.2 Newton's Law of Gravity
10.3 Apparent Weightlessness
10.4 Vector Addition of Gravitational Forces
10.5 Weighing the Earth
10.6 Evidence for Repulsive Gravity

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