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Contents0 Introduction and Review0.1 Introduction and Review . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13The scientific method, 13.—What is physics?, 16.—How to learnphysics, 19.—Velocity and acceleration, 21.—Self-evaluation, 23.—Basics of the metric system, 24.—The newton, the metric unit offorce, 27.—Less common metric prefixes, 28.—Scientific notation,28.—Conversions, 29.—Significant figures, 31.0.2 Scaling and Order-of-Magnitude Estimates . . . . . . 34Introduction, 34.—Scaling of area and volume, 35.—Order-of-magnitudeestimates, 43.Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 461 Conservation of Mass1.1 Mass . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54Problem-solving techniques, 56.—Delta notation, 57.1.2 Equivalence of Gravitational and Inertial Mass . . . . . 581.3 Galilean Relativity . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Applications of calculus, 65.1.4 A Preview of Some Modern Physics . . . . . . . . . 66Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 692 Conservation of Energy2.1 Energy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73The energy concept, 73.—Logical issues, 75.—Kinetic energy, 76.—Power, 80.—Gravitational energy, 81.—Equilibrium and stability,86.—Predicting the direction of motion, 88.2.2 Numerical Techniques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 892.3 Gravitational Phenomena. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94Kepler’s laws, 94.—Circular orbits, 96.—The sun’s gravitationalfield, 97.—Gravitational energy in general, 98.—The shell theorem,101.—Evidence for repulsive gravity, 106.2.4 Atomic Phenomena . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Heat is kinetic energy., 108.—All energy comes from particles movingor interacting., 110.2.5 Oscillations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Problems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Exercises . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1243 Conservation of Momentum3.1 Momentum in One Dimension . . . . . . . . . . . . 126Mechanical momentum, 126.—Nonmechanical momentum, 129.—

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