The Manga Guide to Physics
The Manga Guide to Physics teaches physics in an innovative way by joining real Japanese-style manga with serious and practical instruction. The book's story revolves around Megumi, a high school tennis star frustrated by physics class-and the physics of tennis. Luckily for her, she befriends R...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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San Francisco :
No Starch Press
2009.
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| Edición: | 1st edition |
| Colección: | The manga guide series The manga guide to physics
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009627613906719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; Prologue: Does Physics Bother You?; 1: Law of Action and Reaction; Law of Action and Reaction; Newton's Three Laws of Motion; Scalar Quantities vs. Vector Quantities; Equilibrium and Vector Forces; Newton's Three Laws of Motion; Gravity and Universal Gravitation; 2: Force and Motion; Velocity and Acceleration; Laboratory: Finding the Distance Traveled When Velocity Varies; Newton's First and Second Laws; Laboratory: Finding the Precise Value of a Force; Three Rules of Uniform Accelerated Motion; Adding Vectors: the Head-to-Tail Method
- The Composition and Decomposition of ForcesNewton's First Law of Motion; Newton's Second Law of Motion; The Orientation of Velocity, Acceleration, and Force; An Object Does Not Have Its Own Force; The Unit for Force; Measuring Mass and Force; Determining Weight; Understanding Parabolic Motion; Using Calculus to Find Acceleration and Velocity; Using the Area of a V-T Graph to Find the DistanceTraveled by an Object; 3: Momentum; Momentum and Impulse; Laboratory: Difference in Momentum Due to a Difference in Mass; Laboratory: Finding the Momentum of a Stroke; The Conservation of Momentum
- Laboratory: Outer Space and the Conservation of MomentumReal-World Explorations of Impulse; Momentum and Impulse; Law of Conservation of Momentum for Vectors; Law of Action and Reaction vs. Law of Conservation ofMomentum; Propulsion of a Rocket; 4: Energy; Work and Energy; Laboratory: What's the Difference between Momentum and Kinetic Energy; Laboratory: Work and the Conservation of Energy; Laboratory: The Relationship Between Work and Kinetic Energy; The Conservation of Mechanical Energy; Laboratory: The Law of Conservation of Mechanical Energy in Action
