THE SUNDIAL BRIDGE carries bicycles and pedestrians across the Sacramento River in the Turtle Bay Exploration Park, Redding, California. Unlike many bridges, which support the span from a symmetric structure, the Sundial Bridge has a single tower at one end, which supports the span with cables. The tower is shown in a close-up view on the cover and the entire bridge is shown in this photograph. This structure must resist forces from gravity and the wind that attempt to bend, twist, or topple the tower. The shadow cast by the tower serves as a sundial that provides the correct time on one day of the year, the day of the summer solstice. The shadow of the tower moves across hour markers on the ground at approximately one foot per minute, so the rotation of the earth is easily observable.

Part 1 MECHANICS 

 1 Physics and Measurement 

 2 Motion in One Dimension 

 3 Vectors 

 4 Motion in Two Dimensions 

 5 The Laws of Motion

 6 Circular Motion and Other Applications of Newton’s Laws 

 7 Energy of a System

 8 Conservation of Energy 

 9 Linear Momentum and Collisions 

10 Rotation of a Rigid Object About a Fixed Axis 

11 Angular Momentum

12 Static Equilibrium and Elasticity

13 Universal Gravitation 

14 Fluid Mechanics 

Part 2 OSCILLATIONS AND MECHANICAL WAVES  

15 Oscillatory Motion 

16 Wave Motion 

11 Sound Waves 

18 Superposition and Standing Waves

Part 3 THERMODYNAMICS

19 Temperature

20 The First Law of Thermodynamics 

21 The Kinetic Theory of Gases

22 Heat Engines, Entropy, and the Second Law of Thermodynamics 

Part4 ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM 

23 Electric Fields 

24 Gauss’sLaw 

25 Electric Potential

26 Capacitance and Dielectrics 

27 Currentand Resistance 

28 Direct Current Circuits 

29 Magnetic Fields

30 Sources of the Magnetic Field 

31 Faraday’s Law

32 Inductance 

33 Alternating Current Circuits 

34 Electromagnetic Waves

Part5 LIGHTAND OPTICS 

35 The Nature of Light and the Laws of Geometric Optics 

36 Image Formation 

37 Interference of Light Waves 

38 Diffraction Patterns and Polarization 

Part6 MODERN PHYSICS 

39 Relativity 

Appendices

Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems 

Index