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The physics of everyday phenomena : a conceptual introduction to physics
- Author
- Griffith, W. Thomas.
- Title
- The physics of everyday phenomena : a conceptual introduction to physics.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- 6th ed. / W. Thomas Griffith, Juliet W. Brosing.
- Published
- Dubuque, IA : McGraw-Hill, c2009.
- Description
- xvi, 512 p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm.
- URL
- <Table of contents only> http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0816/2008018203.html
- Other contributors
- Brosing, Juliet Wain, 1953-
- Notes
- Includes index.
- Contents
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- Physics, the fundamental science
- Describing motion
- Falling objects and projectile motion
- Newton's laws : explaining motion
- Circular motion, the planets, and gravity
- Energy and oscillations
- Momentum and impulse
- Rotational motion of solid objects
- The behavior of fluids
- Temperature and heat
- Heat engines and the second law of thermodynamics
- Electrostatic phenomena
- Electric circuits
- Magnets and electromagnetism
- Making waves
- Light waves and color
- Light and image formation
- The structure of the atom
- The nucleus and nuclear energy
- Relativity
- Beyond everyday phenomena.
- Subject headings
- Physics.
- ISBN
- 9780073512112 (hdbk. : alk. paper) 0073512117 (hdbk. : alk. paper)