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PART I MECHANICS. 1 - PHYSICS AND THE LAWS OF NATURE. 2.-MEASUREMENT OF PHYSICAL QUANTITIES, UNITS, ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE. 3 - LINEAR MOVEMENT: CONCEPTS OF SPEED AND ACCELERATION. 4 - ACCELERATION OF GRAVITY AND FREE FALL. 5 - VECTORS IN PHYSICS. 6 - MOTION IN TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONS. THE MOTION OF A PROJECTILE. 7 - UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION. 8 – RELATIVE MOTION. 9 - THE CONCEPT OF FORCE AND THE LAWS OF NEWTON. 10 - NEWTON'S FIRST LAW AND INERTIAL SYSTEMS. 11 - MASS AND ACCELERATION: THE SECOND LAW OF NEWTON. 12 - THE FORCE OF GRAVITY AND WEIGHT. 13 - THE THIRD LAW OF NEWTON. 14 - NORMAL FORCES, FRICTION AND TENSION. 15 - NORMAL FORCES AND APPARENT WEIGHT. 16 – MOTION ALONG AN INCLINED PLANE 17- THE CENTRIPETAL FORCE. 18 - SPRING AND HOOKE'S LAW. 19 - FORCES OF FRICTION. 20 - KINETIC ENERGY AND WORK. 21 - POTENTIAL ENERGY. 22-MECHANICAL ENERGY AND ITS CONSERVATION. 23 - MOMENTUM AND ITS CONSERVATION. 24 - CENTER OF MASS. 25 - ONE-DIMENSIONAL SHOCK. 26 - MECHANICS AND THE ROTATIONAL MOTION. 27 - CENTRIPETAL ACCELERATION. 28 - THE MOMENT OF INERTIA. 29-MOMENT OF THE FORCES AND ANGULAR ACCELERATION. 30 - MECHANICAL ENERGY IN ROTATIONAL MOTION. 31 - HARMONIC MOTION AND UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION. 32 - MECHANICS OF FLUIDS: PRESSURE AND DEPTH OF A FLUID, THE PRINCIPLE OF PASCAL, ARCHIMEDES' PRINCIPLE. 33 - LIQUID MOVEMENT: BERNOULLI'S EQUATION.

PART II THERMODYNAMICS. 34 - TEMPERATURE AND ITS MEASUREMENT. 35 - THERMAL EXPANSION. 36 - THE CONCEPT OF HEAT. 36 - SPECIFIC HEAT. 37 - HEAT AND WORK. 38 - KINETIC THEORY OF GASES. IDEAL GAS. 39 - THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS. 40 - THERMODYNAMIC TRANSFORMATION. 41 - ADIABATIC EXPANSION. 42 - THE ENTROPY AND THE SECOND LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS.

PART III ELECTROMAGNETISM 43 - THE ELECTRIC CHARGE. 44 - ATTRACTION AND REPULSION OF CHARGES. COULOMB'S LAW. 45 - DISTINCTION BETWEEN INSULATORS AND CONDUCTORS. 46 - THE ELECTRIC FIELD. 47 - CHARGES IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD. 48 - FLOW OF ELECTRIC FIELD AND THE LAW OF GAUSS. 49 - ELECTRIC POTENTIAL. EQUIPOTENTIAL SURFACES. 50 - CAPACITORS AND CAPACITY. 51 - CAPACITORS WITH DIELECTRICS. NOTES TO THE PROPERTIES OF DIELECTRICS. 52 - ELECTRICITY AND CIRCUITS. OHM'S LAW. 53 - ENERGY AND POWER IN ELECTRICAL CIRCUITS. 54 - RESISTORS IN SERIES AND IN PARALLEL. CAPACITORS IN SERIES AND IN PARALLEL. 55 - CHARGING AND DISCHARGING OF A CAPACITOR. 56 - MAGNETISM. MAGNETIC FIELD. 57 - MAGNETIC FORCE ON MOVING CHARGES. CHARGE IN CIRCULAR MOTION. 58 - MAGNETIC FIELDS OF CURRENT. 59 - LAW OF INDUCTION OF FARADAY. 60 - INDUCTANCE AND INDUCTORS. RL CIRCUITS IN CONTINUOUS. 61 - CIRCUIT RC, RL AND RLC IN ALTERNATING CURRENT (AC). RESONANCE. 62 - POWER IN AC CIRCUITS. TRANSFORMERS

JAMES S. WALKER “FONDAMENTI DI FISICA” [PEARSON-ADDISON-WESLEY]