Schaum's Outline Of College Physics, Twelfth Edition

By (author) Hecht Eugene
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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time? This all-in-one-package includes more than 700 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. It also offers access to 25 detailed videos featuring instructors who explain the most commonly tested problems.
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Tough Test Questions? Missed Lectures? Not Enough Time?

Fortunately, there''s Schaum''s. This all-in-one-package includes more than 700 fully solved problems, examples, and practice exercises to sharpen your problem-solving skills. Plus, you will have access to 25 detailed videos featuring instructors who explain the most commonly tested problems--it''s just like having your own virtual tutor!.

• Outline format facilitates quick and easy review of college physics
• 744 solved problems
• Hundreds more practice problems with answers
• Exercises to help you test your mastery of college physics
• Now enhanced with 25 problem-solving videos available online and via app.

Appropriate for the following courses: College Physics, Introduction to Physics, Physics I and II, Noncalculus Physics, Advanced Placement H.S. Physics

You''ll find everything you need to build confidence, skills, and knowledge for the highest score possible.

Table of contents

1. Introduction to Vectors • 2. Uniformly Accelerated Motion • 3. Newton''s Laws • 4. Equilibrium Under the Action of Concurrent Forces • 5. Equilibrium of a Rigid Body Under Coplanar Forces • 6. Work, Energy, and Power • 7. Simple Machines • 8. Impulse and Momentum • 9. Angular Motion in a Plane • 10. Rigid-Body Rotation • 11. Simple Harmonic Motion and Springs • 12. Density: Elasticity • 13. Fluids at Rest • 14. Fluids in Motion • 15. Thermal Expansion • 16. Ideal Gases • 17. Kinetic Theory • 18. Heat Quantities • 19. Transfer of Thermal Energy • 20. First Law of Thermodynamics • 21. Entropy and the Second Law • 22. Wave Motion • 23. Sound • 24. Coulomb''s Law and Electric Fields • 25. Electric Potential; Capacitance • 26. Current, Resistance, and Ohm''s Law • 27. Electrical Power • 28. Equivalent Resistance; Simple Circuits29. Kirchhoff''s Laws • 30. Forces in Magnetic Fields • 31. Sources of Magnetic Fields • 32. Induced EMF; Magnetic Flux33. Electric Generators and Motors • 34. Inductance; R-C and R-L Time Constants • 35. Alternating Current • 36. Reflection of Light • 37. Refraction of Light • 38. Thin Lenses • 39. Optical Instruments • 40. Interference and Diffraction of Light • 41. Relativity • 42. Quantum Physics and Wave Mechanics • 43. The Hydrogen Atom • 44. Multielectron Atoms • 45. Nuclei and Radioactivity • 46. Applied Nuclear Physics

Biographical note
Eugene Hecht is a member of the Physics Department of Adelphi Unversity in New York. He has authored eight books.