University Physics with Modern Physics (15^th Ed.)

For courses in calculus-based physics.

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Complete version: Chapters 1-44Available in 3 separate volumes:

• Volume 1: Chapters 1-20
• Volume 2: Chapters 21-37
• Volume 3: Chapters 37-44

MECHANICS

1. Units, Physical Quantities, and Vectors
2. Motion Along a Straight Line
3. Motion in Two or Three Dimensions
4. Newton's Laws of Motion
5. Applying Newton's Laws
6. Work and Kinetic Energy
7. Potential Energy and Energy Conservation
8. Momentum, Impulse, and Collisions
9. Rotation of Rigid Bodies
10. Dynamics of Rotational Motion
11. Equilibrium and Elasticity
12. Fluid Mechanics
13. Gravitation
14. Periodic Motion

WAVES/ACOUSTICS

1. Mechanical Waves
2. Sound and Hearing

THERMODYNAMICS

1. Temperature and Heat
2. Thermal Properties of Matter
3. The First Law of Thermodynamics
4. The Second Law of Thermodynamics

ELECTROMAGNETISM

1. Electric Charge and Electric Field
2. Gauss's Law
3. Electric Potential
4. Capacitance and Dielectrics
5. Current, Resistance, and Electromotive Force
6. Direct-Current Circuits
7. Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces
8. Sources of Magnetic Field
9. Electromagnetic Induction
10. Inductance
11. Alternating Current
12. Electromagnetic Waves

OPTICS

1. The Nature and Propagation of Light
2. Geometric Optics
3. Interference
4. Diffraction

MODERN PHYSICS

1. Relativity
2. Photons: Light Waves Behaving as Particles
3. Particles Behaving as Waves
4. Quantum Mechanics I: Wave Functions
5. Quantum Mechanics II: Atomic Structure
6. Quantum Mechanics II: Atomic Structure
7. Molecules and Condensed Matter
8. Nuclear Physics
9. Particle Physics and Cosmology

About our authors

Roger A. Freedman is a Lecturer in Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was an undergraduate at the University of California campuses in San Diego and Los Angeles and did his doctoral research in nuclear theory at Stanford University under the direction of Professor J. Dirk Walecka. Dr. Freedman came to UCSB in 1981 after three years of teaching and doing research at the University of Washington.

At UCSB, Dr. Freedman has taught in both the Department of Physics and the College of Creative Studies, a branch of the university intended for highly gifted and motivated undergraduates. He has published research in nuclear physics, elementary particle physics, and laser physics. In recent years, he has worked to make physics lectures a more interactive experience through the use of classroom response systems and pre-lecture videos.

In the 1970s Dr. Freedman worked as a comic book letterer and helped organize the San Diego Comic-Con (now the world's largest popular culture convention) during its first few years. Today, when not in the classroom or slaving over a computer, Dr. Freedman can be found either flying (he holds a commercial pilot's license) or with his wife, Caroline, cheering on the rowers of UCSB Men's and Women's Crew.

In Memoriam: Hugh Young (1930–2013)

Hugh D. Young was Emeritus Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University. He earned both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from that university. He earned his Ph.D. in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. Dr. Young joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1956 and retired in 2004. He also had two visiting professorships at the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Young's career was centered entirely on undergraduate education. He wrote several undergraduate-level textbooks, and in 1973 he became a coauthor with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky

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