Introduction 1
Part 1: Putting Physics into Motion 5
CHAPTER 1: Using Physics to Understand Your World 7
CHAPTER 2: Reviewing Physics Measurement and Math Fundamentals 15
CHAPTER 3: Exploring the Need for Speed 27
CHAPTER 4: Following Directions: Motion in Two Dimensions 51
Part 2: May the Forces of Physics Be with You 77
CHAPTER 5: When Push Comes to Shove: Force 79
CHAPTER 6: Getting Down with Gravity, Inclined Planes, and Friction 99
CHAPTER 7: Circling around Rotational Motion and Orbits 117
CHAPTER 8: Go with the Flow: Looking at Pressure in Fluids 139
Part 3: Manifesting the Energy to Work 163
CHAPTER 9: Getting Some Work Out of Physics 165
CHAPTER 10: Putting Objects in Motion: Momentum and Impulse 189
CHAPTER 11: Winding Up with Angular Kinetics 209
CHAPTER 12: Round and Round with Rotational Dynamics 235
CHAPTER 13: Springs 'n' Things: Simple Harmonic Motion 253
Part 4: Laying Down the Laws of Thermodynamics 271
CHAPTER 14: Turning Up the Heat with Thermodynamics 273
CHAPTER 15: Here, Take My Coat: How Heat Is Transferred 289
CHAPTER 16: In the Best of All Possible Worlds: The Ideal Gas Law 305
CHAPTER 17: Heat and Work: The Laws of Thermodynamics 317
Part 5: The Part of Tens 347
CHAPTER 18: Ten Physics Heroes 349
CHAPTER 19: Ten Wild Physics Theories 355
Glossary 363
Index 367