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The following is a physics textbook from 1943 with an expired copyright. That puts it in creative commons and allows me to share its contents with you freely. I hope you enjoy learning from this textbook as much as I did and still do. If you find that any information is incorect or out dated please email me at velocityofstuff@gmail.com and I will add an adendem with the correction but leave the original text intact for reference. For instance, the book marks the speed of light in Earth's atmosphere as 299,796 km/s but The Encyclopedia Britanica states that the same variable has a value of 299,792.458 km/s. Disclaimer: some chapters make casual references to non-European nations and tribal groups as uncivilized or savage. The first chapter particularly. I have left the transcription of these offensive remarks for historical record keeping purposes only. I have written notes in those sections with context or explanation of how to refer to these peoples and that such remarks are inapropriate. I do not condone racism, casual or not. Disclaimer 2: Many of the images used are not the ones in the original text, as I could not find them.

By: Elmer E. Burns - Frank L Verwieme - and Herbert G. Hazel

Table of Contents of Physics a Basic Science

Chapter

1. Measurement

Unit 1. How Liquids Behave

2. Force and Pressure in Liquids

3. Water Systems and Dams

4. Pascals Law and the Hydrolic Press

5. Archimede's Pricipal

6. Specific Gravity and Desity

Unit 2. Molecules

7. Molecules and Their Actions

8. Molecular Forces in Liquids and Solids

Unit 3. The Atmosphere

9. The Weight and Pressure of Air

10. The Barometer and its Uses

11. Compression and Expansion of Gasses

12. Applications of Fluid Pressure

Unit 4. Forces

13. Composition of Forces

14. Resolution of Forces

Unit 5. Falling Bodies and Accelerated Motion

15. Galileo and The Laws of Falling Bodies

16. Accelerated Motion

Unit 6. Gravitation and Newton's Laws of Motion

17. Gravitation

18. Newton's First Law of Motion

19. Newton's Second Law of Motion

20. Newton's Third Law of Motion

21. Introdution to Arodynamics

Unit 7. Machines

22. Work and Friction

23. The Principle of Work

24. The Priciple of Moments and the Conditions for Equilibrium

25. Some Simple Machines

Unit 8. Energy and Power

26. Energy

27. Power

Unit 9. Heat and Molecules

28. The Nature of Heat

29. Temperature and Thermodynamics

30. Expansion of Solids, Liquids, and Gasses

31. How Heat Travels

Unit 10. Measurement of Heat

32. Heat Units

33. Melting and Freezing

34. Evaporation

35. Some Effects of Evaporation and Condenstion

Unit 11. Heat as a Source of Power

36. Heat and Work

37. Heat Engines

Unit 12. Sound

38. What is Sound?

39. Reflection and Combination of Sound Waves

40. Sympathetic Vibrations and Resonance

41. The Properties of Musical Sounds

42. Musical Instruments

43. Musical Scales

Unit 13. The Nature of Light

44. The Nature and the Speed of Light

45. Illumination

Unit 14. The Reflextion of light

46. The Reflection of Light

47. Images formed by Mirrors

Unit 15. The Refraction of Light

48. The Refraction of Light

49. The Index of Refraction

50. Images Formed By Lenses

Unit 16. Optical Instruments

51. The Camera and the Eye

52. The Microscope and the Telescope

Unit 17. Color

53. Spectra

54. Color

Unit 18. Magnetism

55. How Magnets Behave

56. The Earth as a Magnet

Unit 19. Static Electricity

57. Electric Charges

58. Atmospheric Electricity and Electrostatic Machines

Unit 20. Electric Charges in Motion

59. Electric Cells

60. The Chemical Effects of an Electric Current

61. The Magnetic Effects of an Electric Current

Unit 21. Electric Circuts

62. Electrical Resistance

63. Ohm's Law

64. Series and Parallel Circuts

Unit 22. Electromagnetic Induction

65. How a Magnetic Field Produces an Electric Current

66. Electric Dynamos or Generators

67. The Induction Coil and The Transformer

68. The Telephone

69. Electric Motors

Unit 23. Electric Power and Energy

70. The Heating Effect of an Electric Current

71. Electric Power and Energy

Unit 24. Alternating Current

72. Alternating Current

73. Inductance and Capacitance

74. Power in an Alternating Curent Circut

75. Electric Oscilations and Waves

Unit 25. Electronics

76. Conduction of Electricity Through Glass

77. Emission of Electrons from Solids

78. Fundamentals of Radio

79. Trasmiters and Recievers

80. Nuclear Physics

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