Test Bank For The Physical Universe 17Th edition By Konrad Krauskopf
1 The Scientific Method
How Scientists Study Nature
1.1 The Scientific Method
1.2 Why Science Is Successful
The Solar System
1.3 A Survey of the Sky
1.4 The Ptolemaic System
1.5 The Copernican System
1.6 Kepler’s Laws
1.7 Why Copernicus Was Right
Universal Gravitation
1.8 What Is Gravity?
1.9 Why the Earth Is Round
1.10 The Tides
1.11 The Discovery of Neptune
How Many of What
1.12 The SI System
2 Motion
Describing Motion
2.1 Speed
2.2 Vectors
2.3 Acceleration
2.4 Distance, Time, and Acceleration
Acceleration due to Gravity
2.5 Free Fall
2.6 Air Resistance
Force and Motion
2.7 First law of Motion
2.8 Mass
2.9 Second Law of Motion
2.10 Mass and Weight
2.11 Third Law of Motion
Gravitation
2.12 Circular Motion
2.13 Newton’s Law of Gravity
2.14 Artificial Satellites
3 Energy
Work
3.1 The Meaning of Work
3.2 Power
Energy
3.3 Kinetic Energy
3.4 Potential Energy
3.5 Conservation of Energy
3.6 Mechanical Advantage
3.7 The Nature of Heat
Momentum
3.8 Linear Momentum
3.9 Rockets
3.10 Angular Momentum
Relativity
3.11 Special Relativity
3.12 Rest Energy
3.13 General Relativity
4 Energy and the Future
The Energy Problem
4.1 Population and Prosperity
4.2 Energy Supply and Consumption
4.3 Climate Change
4.4 Carbon Dioxide and the Greenhouse Effect
Fossil Fuels
4.5 Liquid Fuels
4.6 Natural Gas
4.7 Coal
Alternative Sources
4.8 A Nuclear World?
4.9 Renewable Energy I
4.10 Renewable Energy II
4.11 Energy Storage
4.12 Biofuels
Strategies for the Future
4.13 Conservation and Geoengineering
4.14 What Governments Must Do
5 Matter and Heat
Temperature and Heat
5.1 Temperature
5.2 Heat
5.3 Metabolic Energy
Fluids
5.4 Density
5.5 Pressure
5.6 Buoyancy
5.7 The Gas Laws
Kinetic Theory of Matter
5.8 Kinetic Theory of Gases
5.9 Molecular Motion and Temperature
5.10 Heat Transfer
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