Detailed Product Description

Designed primarily to give high school students in New York State extra preparation for the Regents exams, this book reviews all high school level physics topics, including motion, forces and Newton’s laws, vector quantities and applications, circular motion and gravitation, properties of matter, electric current and circuits, electromagnetism, waves and sound, light and optics, solid-state physics and semiconductors, nuclear energy, and much more. The book also presents two recent New York State Regents exams with answers. This review book makes an excellent classroom complement to Barron’s Regents Exams and Answers Book for the physics exam.

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction to Physics
• Motion in One Dimension
• Forces and Newton's Law
• Vector Quantities and Their Applications
• Circular Motion and Gravitation
• Momentum and Its Conservation
• Work and Energy
• Internal Energy and the Properties of Matter
• Static Electricity
• Electric Current and Circuits
• Magnetism; Eletromagnetism and Its Applications
• Waves and Sound
• Light and Geometric Optics
• Solid-State Physics
• Modern Physics
• Nuclear Energy
• Glossary
• Answers To Questions For Review
• Appendix 1—New York State Reference Tables For Physical Setting: Physics
• Appendix 2—Summary Of Equations For New York State Physical Setting: Physics Regents Examination
• Appendix 3—Answering Short Constructed Response And Free-Response Questions
• Appendix 4—The New York State Physical Setting: Physics Regents Examination
• Index