Introduction 1 Part 1: Putting Physics into Motion. 5 Chapter 1: Using Physics to Understand Your World 7 Chapter 2: Reviewing the Basics: Math and Measurement 17 Chapter 3: Exploring the Need for Speed 31 Chapter 4: Following Directions: Motion in Two Dimensions 55 Part 2: May the Forces of Physics Be with You 81 Chapter 5: When Push Comes to Shove: Force 83 Chapter 6: Getting Down with Gravity, Inclined Planes, and Friction 103 Chapter 7: Circling Around Rotational Motion and Orbits 121 Chapter 8: Go with the Flow: Looking at Pressure in Fluids 143 Part 3: Manifesting the Energy to Work 167 Chapter 9: Getting Some Work Out of Physics 169 Chapter 10: Putting Objects in Motion: Momentum and Impulse 193 Chapter 11: Winding Up with Angular Kinetics 213 Chapter 12: Round and Round with Rotational Dynamics 239 Chapter 13: Springs 'n' Things: Simple Harmonic Motion 257 Part 4: Laying Down the Laws of Thermodynamics 275 Chapter 14: Turning Up the Heat with Thermodynamics 277 Chapter 15: Here, Take My Coat: How Heat Is Transferred 293 Chapter 16: Best of the Best: The Ideal Gas Law 309 Chapter 17: Heat and Work: The Laws of Thermodynamics 321 Part 5: The Part of Tens 351 Chapter 18: Ten Ways Physics Runs Your Day 353 Chapter 19: Ten Physics Heroes 361 Glossary 367 Index 373.
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