Research Catalog

Title

Schaum's outline of theory and problems of beginning physics I : mechanics and heat / Alvin Halpern.

Author

Halpern, Alvin M.

Publication

New York : McGraw-Hill, c1995.

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Details

Description

x, 471 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

[This book] is intended to help students who are taking, or are preparing to take, a first year College Physics course that is quantitative in nature and focuses on problem solving. The book is specifically designed to allow students with relatively weak training in mathematics and science problem solving to quickly gain the needed quantitative reasoning skills as well as confidence in addressing the subject of physics. A background in high school algebra and the rudiments of trigonometry are assumed.... [This book] should be useful to preprofessional (e.g., premedical and predental) students, engineering students, and science majors. It also is suitable for liberal arts majors who are required to satisfy a rigorous science requirement. -Pref.

Series Statement

Schaum's outline series

Uniform Title

Schaum's outline series

Alternative Title

• Outline of theory and problems of beginning physics I
• Theory and problems of beginning physics I
• Beginning physics I

Subject

• Mechanics
• Heat
• Hot Temperature

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction and mathematical background -- Motion in a straight line -- Motion in a plane -- Forces and equilibrium -- Newton's second law -- Work and mechanical energy -- Energy, power, and simple machines -- Impulse and linear momentum -- Rigid bodies I, equilibrium and center of gravity -- Rigid bodies II, rotational motion -- Deformation of materials and elasticity -- Simple harmonic motion (SHM) -- Fluids at rest (Hydrostatics) -- Fluids in motion (hydrodynamics) -- Thermodynamics I, temperature and heat -- Thermodynamics II, gas laws, the atomic view, and statistical mechanics -- Transfer of heat -- First and second laws of thermodynamics.

ISBN

0070256535

LCCN

^^^94044819^

OCLC

31781840

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library