Schaum's Outline of Physics for Engineering and Science

Review of background material; motion of a particle along a straight line with constant acceleration; motion of a particle in a plane with constant acceleration; Newton's laws of motion - an introduction; Newton's laws of motion - more advanced problems; momentum, impulse and relative motion; motion in a plane along a curved path; work, kinetic energy and power; potential energy and energy conservation; statics of rigid bodies; motion of a rigid body; angular momentum; gravitation; elasticity and harmonic motion; fluid statics; fluid dynamics; gases, thermal motion and the first law of thermodynamics; thermal properties of matter; entropy and the second law of thermodynamics; wave phenomena; sound waves; electric charge and Coulomb's Law; the electric field established by charges at rest; electric flux and Gauss's Law; electric potential; electric current, resistance and power; Kirchoff's Laws for resistive circuits; magnetic forces on moving charges; sources of the magnetic field; Faraday's Law of induced electromotive force; inductance; magnetic fields in material media; time response of simple electric circuits; steady-state solutions for simple AC circuits; reflection, refraction and polarization of light; geometrical optics; interference and diffraction of light; special relativity; photons; the Bohr atom; the nucleus.