Footnote:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description:
Kinematics -- Force and Newton's Laws of Motion -- Motion in a Circle -- Statics -- Energy -- Momentum -- Simple Harmonic Motion -- Waves -- Sound and Hearing -- Elasticity: Stress and Strain -- Pressure -- Buoyancy -- Surface Tension and Capillarity -- Fluid Dynamics of Non-viscous Fluids -- Fluid Dynamics of Viscous Fluids -- Molecular Transport Phenomena -- Temperature and the Zeroth Law -- Ideal Gases -- Phase and Temperature Change -- Water Vapour and the Atmosphere -- Heat Transfer -- Thermodynamics and the Body -- Thermodynamic Processes in Ideal Gases -- Heat Engines And Entropy -- Energy Availability and Thermodynamic Potentials -- Static Electricity -- Electric Force and Electric Field -- Electrical Potential and Energy -- Capacitance -- Direct Currents and DC Circuits -- Time Behaviour of RC Circuits -- The Nature of Light -- Geometric Optics -- The Eye and Vision -- Wave Optics -- Advanced Geometric Optics -- Optical Instruments -- Atoms and Atomic Physics -- The Nucleus and Nuclear Physics -- Production of Ionising Radiation -- Interactions of Ionising Radiation -- Biological Effects of Ionising Radiation -- Medical Imaging -- Magnetism and MRI.
"The second large addition to the textbook is a new section in the Thermodynamics topic with chapters covering thermodynamic processes, heat engines, entropy, and thermodynamic potentials. The material presented in these chapters goes further into some thermodynamics concepts than is typical for a first-year physics text. However, students are confronted with concepts like entropy and Gibb's energy in other courses they undertake as part of their training. These students cannot be expected to develop a deep understanding of these ideas in a single semester, especially in a course whose main purpose is teach chemistry or biochemistry. Our primary goal in this section of the book is to provide students with a secondary source of information which they may access later in their course of study, though it may also prove useful in joining physics with chemistry in integrated science programmes"--