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Welcome to Jearl Walker's Flying Circus of Physics, 2nd Edition, where death-defying stunts, high-flying acrobatics, strange curiosities, and mind-bending illusions are all part of everyday life. You don't need a ticket; you only need to look to the world around you to uncover these fascinating feats of physics. Completely updated and expanded, this Second Edition of Jearl Walker's best-selling text features more than 700 thoroughly intriguing questions about relevant, fun, and completely real physical phenomena. Detailed explanations and references to outside sources guide your way through the problems. • Slipping Between Falling Drops. (Motion). • Racing on the Ceiling, Swimming Through Syrup. (Fluids). • Hiding Under the Covers, Listening or the Monsters. (Sound). • Striking at the Heat in the Night. (Thermal Processes). • Ducking First a Roar and Then a Flash. (Electricity and Magnetism). • Splashing Colors Everywhere, Like a Rainbow. (Optics). • Armadillos Dancing Against a Swollen Moon. (Vision). Learn More

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David Halliday is associated with the University of Pittsburgh as Professor Emeritus. As department chair in 1960, he and Robert Resnick collaborated on Physics for Students of Science and Engineering and then on Fundamentals of Physics. Robert Resnick is professor emeritus at Rensselaer and the former Edward P. Hamilton Distinguished Professor of Science Education, 1974-93. Together with his co-author David Halliday, he revolutionized physics education with their now famous textbook on general physics, still one of the most highly regarded texts in the field today. Jearl Walker, professor of physics at Cleveland State University, received his BS in physics from MIT in 1967 and his PhD in physics from University of Maryland in 1973. His book The Flying Circus of Physics was published 30 years ago, has been translated into at least 10 languages, and is still being sold world wide. For 16 years he toured his Flying Circus talk throughout the U.S. and Canada, introducing such physics stunts as the bed-of-nails demonstration and the walking-on-hot-coals demonstration to countless physics teachers, who then proceeded to hurt themselves when they repeated the stunts in their own classrooms. These talks led to his PBS television show Kinetic Karnival which ran nationally for years and which earned an Emmy.

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This adapted version of world’s most successful books on Physics offers a solid understanding of fundamental concepts and helps reader apply this conceptual understanding to quantitative problem solving. This volume covers topics on Units and Dimensions, Mechanics and Thermal Physics. The text has been rearranged as per the IIT-JEE syllabus and many small topics are included in the original chapters to make the coverage more complete. A number of additional problems and solved examples are also included. The book offers a unique problem-solving technique: 4C’s (Conceptualize, Classify, Compute and Categorize), which guides students towards stepwise problem-solving. • Units and Dimensions • Vectors and Elementary Calculus • Straight Line Motion • Two- and Three-Dimensional Motion • Newton’s Laws of Motion • Friction • Circular Motion • Work, Power, and Energy • Center of Mass • Rigid Body Dynamics-I • Rigid Body Dynamics-II • Elasticity • Newtonian Gravitation • Fluids • Simple Harmonic Motion • Mechanical Waves • Longitudinal Waves • Temperature and Thermal Expansion • Heat, Calorimetry, and Heat Transfer • The Kinetic Theory of Gases • First Law of Thermodynamics Learn More

Calculus - the most important topic for IIT-JEE aspirants - constitutes a major part of modern mathematics. It has two major branches, differential calculus and integral calculus

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