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Physics for Scientists and Engineers 3rd edition
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Richard Wolfson and Jay M. Pasachoff
Published by Addison Wesley

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Chapter 1: Doing Physics

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Chapter 2: Motion in a Straight Line

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Chapter 3: The Vector Description of Motion

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Chapter 4: Motion in More Than One Dimension

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Chapter 5: Force and Motion

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Chapter 6: Using Newton's Laws

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Chapter 7: Work, Energy, and Power

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Chapter 8: Conservation of Energy

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Chapter 9: Gravitation

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Chapter 10: Systems of Particles

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Chapter 11: Collisions

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Chapter 12: Rotational Motion

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Chapter 13: Rotational Vectors and Angular Momentum

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Chapter 14: Static Equilibrium

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Chapter 15: Oscillatory Motion

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Chapter 16: Wave Motion

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Chapter 17: Sound and Other Wave Phenomena

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Chapter 18: Fluid Motion

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Chapter 19: Temperature and Heat

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Chapter 20: The Thermal Behavior of Matter

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Chapter 21: Heat, Work, and the First Law of Thermodynamics

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Chapter 22: The Second Law of Thermodynamics

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Chapter 23: Electric Charge, Force, and Field

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Chapter 24: Gauss's Law

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Chapter 25: Electric Potential

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Chapter 26: Electrostatic Energy and Capacitors

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Chapter 27: Electric Current

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Chapter 28: Electric Circuits

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Chapter 29: The Magnetic Field

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Chapter 30: Sources of the Magnetic Field

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Chapter 31: Electromagnetic Induction

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Chapter 32: Inductance and Magnetic Energy

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Chapter 33: Alternating-Current Circuits

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Chapter 34: Maxwell's Equations and Electromagnetic Waves

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Chapter 35: Reflection and Refraction

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Chapter 36: Image Formation and Optical Instruments

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Chapter 37: Interference and Diffraction

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Chapter 38: Relativity

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Chapter 39: Inside Atoms and Nuclei

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Chapter 40: Quantum Mechanics of Atoms

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Chapter 41: Molecules and Solids

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