A Student's Companion to Accompany Fundamentals of Physics, Fifth Edition
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This popular book incorporates modern approaches to physics. It not only tells readers how physics works, it shows them. Applications have been enhanced to form a bridge between concepts and reasoning.

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Partial table of contents:

Measurement.

Motion Along a Straight Line.

Vectors.

Motion in Two and Three Dimensions.

Force and Motion—I.

Force and Motion—II.

Kinetic Energy and Work.

Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy.

Rotation.

Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum.

Equilibrium and Elasticity.

Fluids.

Oscillations.

Waves—I.

Waves— II.

Temperature, Heat, and the First Law of Thermodynamics.

The Kinetic Theory of Gases.

Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

Electric Fields.

Gauss' Law.

Electric Potential.

Current and Resistance.

Circuits.

Magnetic Fields.

Magnetic Fields Due to Currents.

Induction and Inductance.

Electromagnetic Waves.

Diffraction.

Photons and Matter Waves.

Nuclear Physics.

Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang.

Appendices.

Answers to Checkpoints and Odd-Numbered Questions, Exercises and Problems.

Index.

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