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245 14 $aThe joy of physics /$cArthur W. Wiggins ; cartoons by Sidney Harris.
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bPrometheus Books,$c2007.
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 355-364) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : the scientific method -- A word about calculators -- Apparatus needed for all experiments -- Experiment 1 : Identified flying objects -- Experiment 2 : Updated cannonballs -- ch. 1. How things move : position, velocity, and acceleration -- Experiment 3 : Weight 'til the sun shines, Nellie -- ch. 2. Why things move : forces and their effects -- Experiment 4 : Dropsy -- ch. 3. Sources of forces : the biggies in nature -- Experiment 5 : Horizontal globalization -- ch. 4. Round and round it goes, and where it stops : circular motion -- Experiment 6 : Outgoing = incoming -- ch. 5. The ultimate four-letter word : work -- Experiment 7 : Follow the bouncing ball -- ch. 6. Oops! collisions : impulse and linear momentum -- Experiment 8 : You say you want a revolution? -- ch. 7. Spinning wheels, got to go round -- Experiment 9 : Mo' yo-yo -- ch. 8. Force with a twist : torque -- Experiment 10 : Teeter-totter -- ch. 9. The strange case of the body that doesn't move : static equilibrium -- Experiment 11 : Stretchy spring -- ch. 10. Getting bent out of shape : elasticity -- Experiment 12 : Gaze intently at the swinging yo-yo -- Experiment 13 : Incredibly repetitive -- ch. 11. Back and forth, back and forth : simple harmonic motion and waves -- Experiment 14 : Magic spring tricks -- ch. 12. Hey, listen, what's that sound? -- Experiment 15 : Dive, dive -- ch. 13. Gooey and gassy : fluids at their finest -- Experiment 16 : Soda bottle crush -- ch. 14. Even perfection has its flaws : the ideal gas -- Experiment 17 : Kitchen physics -- ch. 15. Some like it hot : thermodynamics -- Experiment 18 : Static cling -- ch. 16. Charge it : electricity at rest -- Experiment 19 : Meter reader -- ch. 17. Who let the charges out? : electric current -- Experiment 20 : Resistance is futile -- ch. 18. Silent struggles in the wires : resistance -- Experiment 21 : Do-it-yourself magnet -- ch. 19. Approach/avoidance : magnetism -- Experiment 22 : Battery-less voltage -- ch. 20. We are family : electricity from magnetism -- Experiment 23 : All shook up -- ch. 21. Big-time electricity : AC -- Experiment 24 : LEDs lead the way -- ch. 22. The light dawns : electromagnetic waves -- Experiment 25 : Bent light -- Experiment 26 : Polar opposites -- ch. 23. Mirror, mirror on the wall : reflection and refraction of light -- Experiment 27 : Spreading the beam -- Experiment 28 : Compact rainbow -- ch. 24. Light's strangest tricks : diffraction and interference -- ch. 25. Einstein's prodigious efforts : special and general relativity -- Experiment 29 : LASER, not phasor -- ch. 26. : Matter's innards : atoms and quantum mechanics -- Experiment 30 : Half-life is better than no life -- ch. 27. Atoms' innards : nuclear physics -- ch. 28. Down to the nitty-gritty : the standard model of the universe's smallest constituents -- ch. 29. But wait, there's even more : the universe's biggest constituents -- Afterword.
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