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Conceptual Physics
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Abstract: This is a nonmathematical physics textbook, designed so that it can be used either for a semester-length course of the type popularized by Hewitt, or for a shorter course of 8 or 10 weeks. This book is essentially a rewritten version of Discover Physics. The rewrite is intended to do two things: (1) ... More »
Conservation Laws
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Abstract: Some of the topics addressed in this book are: Conservation of energy; the transfer of mechanical energy; conservation of momentum; conservation of angular momentum; thermodynamics.
Discover Physics
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Abstract: Discover Physics is a conceptual physics textbook intended for students in a nonmathematical one-semester general-education course.
Electricity and Magnetism
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Abstract: In this book the following topics are addressed: electricity and the atom; the nucleus circuits; fields of force; electromagnetism; capacitance and inductance.
Newtonian Physics
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Abstract: Some of the topics addressed in this book are: Scaling and Order-of-Magnitude Estimates; Velocity and Relative Motion; Acceleration and Free Fall; Force and Motion; Analysis of Forces; Newton's Laws in Three Dimensions; Vectors; Circular Motion; Gravity.
Optics
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Abstract: Some of the topics addressed in this book are: The ray model of light; images by reflection; refraction and images; wave optics.
Simple Nature
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Abstract: Simple Nature is a physics textbook intended for students in a three-semester introductory calculus-based course.
The Modern Revolution in Physics
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Abstract: This book addresses the following topics: Relativity, rules of randomness; light as a particle; matter as a wave; the atom.
Vibrations and Waves
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Abstract: In this book the following topics are addressed: Vibrations, resonance, free waves, bounded waves.
