Understanding Physics: Student GuideSpringer Science & Business Media, 01.06.2006 - 165 Seiten This book, a companion to the textbook, Understanding Physics, is your guide to observations and explorations in the world of physics. Prepare for ch- lenging work, fun, and some surprises. One of the best ways to learn physics is by doing physics, in the laboratory and everywhere. One cannot rely on reading and class work alone. The explorations in this book are your - portunity to gain some actual, hands-on experience with physics. Many of these explorations will assist you to design your own experiments and to discover many of the important ideas of science yourself. As you will see from the Contents, this Student Guide provides a variety of potentially helpful materials. Following the Introduction is a review of units, mathematics, and scientific notation, and a list of suggested further reading and Web Sites. However, a large portion of the Student Guide c- tains further materials relating to many of the textbook chapters, as well as to laboratory explorations. In the section containing “Further Chapter - terials” you will find elaborations on topics in many of the chapters, as well as derivations of important equations. A complete list of the suggested mi- and major-laboratory explorations is also given in the Contents. Each - ploration is keyed to specific portions of the textbook, and lists are also provided of the explorations pertaining to each part of the text. |
Inhalt
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Further Reading and Web Sites | 21 |
The following laboratory activities were adapted in whole or in part from | 32 |
Part One Chapters 19 | 45 |
Laboratory Explorations | 74 |
Our Place in Space Sections P 2 14 4 | 75 |
Reviewing Graphs Chapter 1 and Major Laboratories | 77 |
Falling Objects Section 1 9 | 80 |
Exploring the Heavens Chapter 2 | 100 |
This exploration is adapted from | 102 |
A Computer Planetarium Chapter 2 | 108 |
Exploring Forces Section 3 4 | 114 |
Exploring Force Work Energy and Power Chapters 3 5 Section 6 3 | 118 |
7 | 119 |
Finding the Mechanical Equivalent of Heat Section 6 1 | 123 |
8 | 126 |
Relative Motion Chapter 2 Sections 3 9 9 3 | 81 |
Galileo and Inertia Sections 3 1 3 8 3 9 5 9 5 10 | 82 |
Finding the Centripetal Acceleration Vector Sections 3 3 3 12 | 83 |
Three States of Matter Chapter 7 Section 16 2 Major Laboratory Heat Transfer and Latent Heat of Fusion | 85 |
How Do We Know That Atoms Really Exist? The Brownianscope Section 7 | 86 |
Spectroscopy Chapter 14 | 87 |
Part A of this exploration is adapted from the activity Scale | 88 |
SUGGESTED MAJOR LABORATORY EXPLORATIONS 1 Investigating Measurements and Uncertainty | 89 |
Exploring Motion Chapter 1 | 94 |
This exploration | 128 |
Investigating Waves Chapter 8 Part 1 | 134 |
A Computer Excursion into Relativity Theory This exploration fol | 139 |
Exploring Electric Charges Magnetic Poles and Gravitation Chapter 10 | 146 |
Investigating Electric Currents I Chapters 10 16 | 152 |
Investigating Electric Currents II Chapter 10 | 156 |
Avogadros Number and the Size and Mass of a Molecule Chapters 7 13 | 161 |
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
accepted value Alpha Centauri altitude amount angle arrow average acceleration average speed axis ball bulb calories celestial sphere Chapter charges circuit clock collisions constant distance draw Earth electrons energy equal equation example experiment expression Galileo’s graph gravitational Heat of Fusion hot water ice cube interval joules kg m/s laboratory explorations Latent Heat length light magnetic Major Laboratory mass measurement mechanical equivalent melted metal meteorite meter stick mi/hr molecules momentum Moon motion moving number of atoms object observe obtain Ohm’s law oleic acid orbit particles physics plane position predicted Press quantity record result retrograde motion reversible engines right triangle scale scientific notation Section side slope solar noon Space Shuttle spreadsheet spring stars starting straight line Sun’s tape temperature theory traveled units variables vector velocity voltage wave wavelength zero