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10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
B R I E F C O N T E N T S

V O L U M E 1 V O L U M E 2
1 Measurement 21 Coulomb’s Law
2 Motion Along a Straight Line 22 Electric Fields
3 Vectors 23 Gauss’ Law
4 Motion in Two and Three Dimensions 24 Electric Potential
5 Force and Motion—I 25 Capacitance
6 Force and Motion—II 26 Current and Resistance
7 Kinetic Energy and Work 27 Circuits
8 Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy 28 Magnetic Fields
9 Center of Mass and Linear Momentum 29 Magnetic Fields Due to Currents
10 Rotation 30 Induction and Inductance
11 Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum 31 Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating
12 Equilibrium and Elasticity Current
13 Gravitation 32 Maxwell’s Equations; Magnetism of Matter

14 Fluids 33 Electromagnetic Waves

15 Oscillations 34 Images

16 Waves—I 35 Interference

17 Waves—II 36 Diffraction

18 Temperature, Heat, and the First Law of 37 Relativity


Thermodynamics 38 Photons and Matter Waves
19 The Kinetic Theory of Gases 39 More About Matter Waves
20 Entropy and the Second Law of 40 All About Atoms
Thermodynamics 41 Conduction of Electricity in Solids
42 Nuclear Physics
43 Energy from the Nucleus
44 Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang

Appendices / Answers to Checkpoints and Odd-Numbered Questions and Problems / Index

v
C O N T E N T S

1 Measurement  1 Adding Vectors by Components   46


1-1 MEASURING THINGS, INCLUDING LENGTHS   1 Vectors and the Laws of Physics   47
What Is Physics?   1
3-3 MULTIPLYING VECTORS   50
Measuring Things   1
Multiplying Vectors   50
The International System of Units   2
Changing Units   3 REVIEW & SUMMARY 55 QUESTIONS 56 PROBLEMS 57

Length  3
Significant Figures and Decimal Places   4 4 Motion in Two and Three Dimensions   62
4-1 POSITION AND DISPLACEMENT  62
1-2 TIME   5
What Is Physics?   62
Time  5
Position and Displacement   63
1-3 MASS  6
4-2 AVERAGE VELOCITY AND INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY   64
Mass  6
Average Velocity and Instantaneous Velocity   65
REVIEW & SUMMARY 8 PROBLEMS 8

4-3 AVERAGE ACCELERATION AND INSTANTANEOUS


2 Motion Along a Straight Line   13 ACCELERATION  67
2-1 POSITION, DISPLACEMENT, AND AVERAGE VELOCITY   13 Average Acceleration and Instantaneous Acceleration   68
What Is Physics?   13
Motion  14 4-4 PROJECTILE MOTION  70
Position and Displacement   14 Projectile Motion   70
Average Velocity and Average Speed   15
4-5 UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION   76
2-2 INSTANTANEOUS VELOCITY AND SPEED  18 Uniform Circular Motion   76
Instantaneous Velocity and Speed   18
4-6 RELATIVE MOTION IN ONE DIMENSION   78
2-3 ACCELERATION   20 Relative Motion in One Dimension   78
Acceleration  20
4-7 RELATIVE MOTION IN TWO DIMENSIONS   80
2-4 CONSTANT ACCELERATION  23 Relative Motion in Two Dimensions   80
Constant Acceleration: A Special Case   23 REVIEW & SUMMARY 81  QUESTIONS 82  PROBLEMS 84
Another Look at Constant Acceleration   26

2-5 FREE-FALL ACCELERATION  27 5 Force and Motion—I   94


Free-Fall Acceleration   27 5-1 NEWTON’S FIRST AND SECOND LAWS   94
What Is Physics?   94
2-6 GRAPHICAL INTEGRATION IN MOTION ANALYSIS    29 Newtonian Mechanics   95
Graphical Integration in Motion Analysis   29 Newton’s First Law   95
REVIEW & SUMMARY 30 QUESTIONS 31 PROBLEMS 32 Force  96
Mass  97
3 Vectors   40 Newton’s Second Law   98
3-1 VECTORS AND THEIR COMPONENTS   40
What Is Physics?   40 5-2 SOME PARTICULAR FORCES   102
Vectors and Scalars   40 Some Particular Forces   102
Adding Vectors Geometrically   41
5-3 APPLYING NEWTON’S LAWS    106
Components of Vectors   42
Newton’s Third Law   106
3-2 UNIT VECTORS, ADDING VECTORS BY COMPONENTS   46 Applying Newton’s Laws   108
Unit Vectors   46 REVIEW & SUMMARY 114  QUESTIONS 114  PROBLEMS 116

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CONTENTS vii

6 Force and Motion—II   124 8-4 WORK DONE ON A SYSTEM BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE   191
6-1 FRICTION  124 Work Done on a System by an External Force   192
What Is Physics?   124
8-5 CONSERVATION OF ENERGY   195
Friction  124
Conservation of Energy   195
Properties of Friction   127
REVIEW & SUMMARY 199 QUESTIONS 200 PROBLEMS 202
6-2 THE DRAG FORCE AND TERMINAL SPEED   130
The Drag Force and Terminal Speed   130
9 Center of Mass and Linear Momentum   214
6-3 UNIFORM CIRCULAR MOTION   133 9-1 CENTER OF MASS    214
Uniform Circular Motion   133 What Is Physics?   214
REVIEW & SUMMARY 138 QUESTIONS 139 PROBLEMS 140 The Center of Mass   215

9-2 NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR A SYSTEM OF


7 Kinetic Energy and Work   149 PARTICLES  220
7-1 KINETIC ENERGY  149 Newton’s Second Law for a System of Particles   220
What Is Physics?   149
9-3 LINEAR MOMENTUM  224
What Is Energy?   149
Linear Momentum   224
Kinetic Energy   150
The Linear Momentum of a System of Particles   225
7-2 WORK AND KINETIC ENERGY   151 9-4 COLLISION AND IMPULSE  226
Work  151 Collision and Impulse   226
Work and Kinetic Energy   152
9-5 CONSERVATION OF LINEAR MOMENTUM   230
7-3 WORK DONE BY THE GRAVITATIONAL FORCE   155 Conservation of Linear Momentum   230
Work Done by the Gravitational Force   156
9-6 MOMENTUM AND KINETIC ENERGY IN
7-4 WORK DONE BY A SPRING FORCE   159 COLLISIONS  233
Work Done by a Spring Force   159 Momentum and Kinetic Energy in Collisions   233
Inelastic Collisions in One Dimension   234
7-5 WORK DONE BY A GENERAL VARIABLE FORCE   162
Work Done by a General Variable Force   162 9-7 ELASTIC COLLISIONS IN ONE DIMENSION   237
Elastic Collisions in One Dimension   237
7-6 POWER   166
Power  166 9-8 COLLISIONS IN TWO DIMENSIONS   240
REVIEW & SUMMARY 168 QUESTIONS 169 PROBLEMS 170 Collisions in Two Dimensions   240

9-9 SYSTEMS WITH VARYING MASS: A ROCKET   241


8 Potential Energy and Conservation of Systems with Varying Mass: A Rocket   241
Energy  177 REVIEW & SUMMARY 243 QUESTIONS 245 PROBLEMS 246

8-1 POTENTIAL ENERGY  177


What Is Physics?   177
Work and Potential Energy   178 10 Rotation  257
Path Independence of Conservative Forces   179 10-1 ROTATIONAL VARIABLES  257
Determining Potential Energy Values   181 What Is Physics?   258
Rotational Variables   259
8-2 CONSERVATION OF MECHANICAL ENERGY   184 Are Angular Quantities Vectors?   264
Conservation of Mechanical Energy   184
10-2 ROTATION WITH CONSTANT ANGULAR
8-3 READING A POTENTIAL ENERGY CURVE   187 ACCELERATION    266
Reading a Potential Energy Curve   187 Rotation with Constant Angular Acceleration   266
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10-3 RELATING THE LINEAR AND ANGULAR 12 Equilibrium and Elasticity   327


VARIABLES  268 12-1 EQUILIBRIUM  327
Relating the Linear and Angular Variables   268 What Is Physics?   327
10-4 KINETIC ENERGY OF ROTATION   271 Equilibrium  327
Kinetic Energy of Rotation   271 The Requirements of Equilibrium   329
The Center of Gravity   330
10-5 CALCULATING THE ROTATIONAL INERTIA   273
Calculating the Rotational Inertia   273 12-2 SOME EXAMPLES OF STATIC EQUILIBRIUM   332
Some Examples of Static Equilibrium   332
10-6 TORQUE   277
Torque  278 12-3 ELASTICITY  338
Indeterminate Structures   338
10-7 NEWTON’S SECOND LAW FOR ROTATION   279 Elasticity  339
Newton’s Second Law for Rotation   279
REVIEW & SUMMARY 343 QUESTIONS 343 PROBLEMS 345

10-8 WORK AND ROTATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY   282


Work and Rotational Kinetic Energy   282 13 Gravitation  354
REVIEW & SUMMARY 285 QUESTIONS 286 PROBLEMS 287 13-1 NEWTON’S LAW OF GRAVITATION   354
What Is Physics?   354
Newton’s Law of Gravitation   355
11­ Rolling, Torque, and Angular Momentum   295
11-1 ROLLING AS TRANSLATION AND ROTATION 13-2 GRAVITATION AND THE PRINCIPLE OF
COMBINED  295 SUPERPOSITION    357
What Is Physics?   295 Gravitation and the Principle of Superposition   357
Rolling as Translation and Rotation Combined   295
13-3 GRAVITATION NEAR EARTH’S SURFACE   359
11-2 FORCES AND KINETIC ENERGY OF ROLLING   298 Gravitation Near Earth’s Surface   360
The Kinetic Energy of Rolling   298
13-4 GRAVITATION INSIDE EARTH   362
The Forces of Rolling   299
Gravitation Inside Earth   363
11-3 THE YO-YO   301
13-5 GRAVITATIONAL POTENTIAL ENERGY   364
The Yo-Yo   302
Gravitational Potential Energy   364
11-4 TORQUE REVISITED   302
13-6 PLANETS AND SATELLITES: KEPLER’S LAWS   368
Torque Revisited   303
Planets and Satellites: Kepler’s Laws   369
11-5 ANGULAR MOMENTUM   305
Angular Momentum   305 13-7 SATELLITES: ORBITS AND ENERGY   371
Satellites: Orbits and Energy   371
11-6 NEWTON’S SECOND LAW IN ANGULAR FORM   307
Newton’s Second Law in Angular Form   307 13-8 EINSTEIN AND GRAVITATION  374
Einstein and Gravitation   374
11-7 ANGULAR MOMENTUM OF A RIGID BODY   310 REVIEW & SUMMARY 376 QUESTIONS 377 PROBLEMS 378
The Angular Momentum of a System of Particles   310
The Angular Momentum of a Rigid Body Rotating About
a Fixed Axis   311 14 Fluids  386
14-1 FLUIDS, DENSITY, AND PRESSURE   386
11-8 CONSERVATION OF ANGULAR MOMENTUM   312 What Is Physics?   386
Conservation of Angular Momentum   312 What Is a Fluid?   386
Density and Pressure   387
11-9 PRECESSION OF A GYROSCOPE   317
Precession of a Gyroscope   317 14-2 FLUIDS AT REST  388
REVIEW & SUMMARY 318 QUESTIONS 319 PROBLEMS 320 Fluids at Rest   389
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14-3 MEASURING PRESSURE  392 16-3 ENERGY AND POWER OF A WAVE TRAVELING ALONG


Measuring Pressure   392 A STRING   454
Energy and Power of a Wave Traveling Along a String   454
14-4 PASCAL’S PRINCIPLE  393
Pascal’s Principle   393 16-4 THE WAVE EQUATION   456
The Wave Equation   456
14-5 ARCHIMEDES’ PRINCIPLE   394
Archimedes’ Principle   395 16-5 INTERFERENCE OF WAVES  458
The Principle of Superposition for Waves   458
14-6 THE EQUATION OF CONTINUITY   398 Interference of Waves   459
Ideal Fluids in Motion   398
The Equation of Continuity   399 16-6 PHASORS  462
Phasors  462
14-7 BERNOULLI’S EQUATION  401
Bernoulli’s Equation   401
16-7 STANDING WAVES AND RESONANCE   465
Standing Waves   465
REVIEW & SUMMARY 405 QUESTIONS 405 PROBLEMS 406
Standing Waves and Resonance   467
REVIEW & SUMMARY 470 QUESTIONS 471 PROBLEMS 472

15 Oscillations  413
15-1 SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION   413 17 Waves—II   479
What Is Physics?   414 17-1 SPEED OF SOUND   479
Simple Harmonic Motion   414 What Is Physics?   479
The Force Law for Simple Harmonic Motion   419 Sound Waves   479
The Speed of Sound   480
15-2 ENERGY IN SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION   421
Energy in Simple Harmonic Motion   421 17-2 TRAVELING SOUND WAVES   482
Traveling Sound Waves   482
15-3 AN ANGULAR SIMPLE HARMONIC OSCILLATOR   423
An Angular Simple Harmonic Oscillator   423 17-3 INTERFERENCE  485
Interference  485
15-4 PENDULUMS, CIRCULAR MOTION   424
Pendulums  425 17-4 INTENSITY AND SOUND LEVEL   488
Simple Harmonic Motion and Uniform Circular Motion   428 Intensity and Sound Level   489

15-5 DAMPED SIMPLE HARMONIC MOTION   430 17-5 SOURCES OF MUSICAL SOUND   492
Damped Simple Harmonic Motion   430 Sources of Musical Sound   493

15-6 FORCED OSCILLATIONS AND RESONANCE   432 17-6 BEATS  496


Forced Oscillations and Resonance   432 Beats  497

REVIEW & SUMMARY 434 QUESTIONS 434 PROBLEMS 436 17-7 THE DOPPLER EFFECT   498
The Doppler Effect   499

16 Waves—I   444 17-8 SUPERSONIC SPEEDS, SHOCK WAVES   503


16-1 TRANSVERSE WAVES   444 Supersonic Speeds, Shock Waves   503
What Is Physics?   445 REVIEW & SUMMARY 504 QUESTIONS 505 PROBLEMS 506
Types of Waves   445
Transverse and Longitudinal Waves   445
18 Temperature, Heat, and the First Law of
Wavelength and Frequency   446
The Speed of a Traveling Wave   449
Thermodynamics  514
18-1 TEMPERATURE   514
16-2 WAVE SPEED ON A STRETCHED STRING   452 What Is Physics?   514
Wave Speed on a Stretched String   452 Temperature  515
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The Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics   515 19-9 THE ADIABATIC EXPANSION OF AN IDEAL GAS   571
Measuring Temperature   516 The Adiabatic Expansion of an Ideal Gas   571

18-2 THE CELSIUS AND FAHRENHEIT SCALES   518 REVIEW & SUMMARY 575 QUESTIONS 576 PROBLEMS 577

The Celsius and Fahrenheit Scales   518


20 Entropy and the Second Law of
18-3 THERMAL EXPANSION   520
Thermal Expansion   520
Thermodynamics  583
20-1 ENTROPY  583
18-4 ABSORPTION OF HEAT   522 What Is Physics?   584
Temperature and Heat   523 Irreversible Processes and Entropy   584
The Absorption of Heat by Solids and Liquids   524 Change in Entropy   585
The Second Law of Thermodynamics   588
18-5 THE FIRST LAW OF THERMODYNAMICS   528
A Closer Look at Heat and Work   528 20-2 ENTROPY IN THE REAL WORLD: ENGINES   590
The First Law of Thermodynamics   531 Entropy in the Real World: Engines   590
Some Special Cases of the First Law of
Thermodynamics  532 20-3 REFRIGERATORS AND REAL ENGINES   595
Entropy in the Real World: Refrigerators   596
18-6 HEAT TRANSFER MECHANISMS  534 The Efficiencies of Real Engines   597
Heat Transfer Mechanisms   534
20-4 A STATISTICAL VIEW OF ENTROPY   598
REVIEW & SUMMARY 538 QUESTIONS 540 PROBLEMS 541
A Statistical View of Entropy   598
REVIEW & SUMMARY 602 QUESTIONS 603 PROBLEMS 604

19 The Kinetic Theory of Gases   549


19-1 AVOGADRO’S NUMBER   549 21 Coulomb’s Law  609
What Is Physics?   549
21-1 COULOMB’S LAW  609
Avogadro’s Number   550
What Is Physics?   610
19-2 IDEAL GASES  550 Electric Charge   610
Ideal Gases   551 Conductors and Insulators   612
Coulomb’s Law   613
19-3 PRESSURE, TEMPERATURE, AND
RMS SPEED   554 21-2 CHARGE IS QUANTIZED   619
Pressure, Temperature, and RMS Speed   554 Charge Is Quantized   619

19-4 TRANSLATIONAL KINETIC ENERGY   557 21-3 CHARGE IS CONSERVED   621


Translational Kinetic Energy   557 Charge Is Conserved   621
REVIEW & SUMMARY 622  QUESTIONS 623  PROBLEMS 624
19-5 MEAN FREE PATH   558
Mean Free Path   558
22 Electric Fields  630
19-6 THE DISTRIBUTION OF MOLECULAR SPEEDS   560 22-1 THE ELECTRIC FIELD   630
The Distribution of Molecular Speeds   561 What Is Physics?   630
The Electric Field   631
19-7 THE MOLAR SPECIFIC HEATS OF
Electric Field Lines   631
AN IDEAL GAS   564
The Molar Specific Heats of an Ideal Gas   564 22-2 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A CHARGED
PARTICLE  633
19-8 DEGREES OF FREEDOM AND MOLAR The Electric Field Due to a Point Charge   633
SPECIFIC HEATS   568
Degrees of Freedom and Molar Specific Heats   568 22-3 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A DIPOLE   635
A Hint of Quantum Theory   570 The Electric Field Due to an Electric Dipole   636
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22-4 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A LINE OF CHARGE   638 24-5 POTENTIAL DUE TO A CONTINUOUS CHARGE
The Electric Field Due to Line of Charge   638 DISTRIBUTION  698
Potential Due to a Continuous Charge Distribution   698
22-5 THE ELECTRIC FIELD DUE TO A CHARGED DISK   643
The Electric Field Due to a Charged Disk   643 24-6 CALCULATING THE FIELD FROM THE POTENTIAL   701
Calculating the Field from the Potential   701
22-6 A POINT CHARGE IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD   645
A Point Charge in an Electric Field   645 24-7 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL ENERGY OF A SYSTEM OF
CHARGED PARTICLES   703
22-7 A DIPOLE IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD   647 Electric Potential Energy of a System of Charged Particles   703
A Dipole in an Electric Field   648
REVIEW & SUMMARY 650  QUESTIONS 651  PROBLEMS 652 24-8 POTENTIAL OF A CHARGED ISOLATED CONDUCTOR   706
Potential of a Charged Isolated Conductor   706
23 Gauss’ Law  659 REVIEW & SUMMARY 707  QUESTIONS 708  PROBLEMS 710
23-1 ELECTRIC FLUX  659
What Is Physics?   659
25 Capacitance  717
Electric Flux   660
25-1 CAPACITANCE  717
23-2 GAUSS’ LAW  664 What Is Physics?   717
Gauss’ Law   664 Capacitance  717
Gauss’ Law and Coulomb’s Law   666
25-2 CALCULATING THE CAPACITANCE  719
23-3 A CHARGED ISOLATED CONDUCTOR   668 Calculating the Capacitance   720
A Charged Isolated Conductor   668
25-3 CAPACITORS IN PARALLEL AND IN SERIES   723
23-4 APPLYING GAUSS’ LAW: CYLINDRICAL Capacitors in Parallel and in Series   724
SYMMETRY  671
25-4 ENERGY STORED IN AN ELECTRIC FIELD   728
Applying Gauss’ Law: Cylindrical Symmetry   671
Energy Stored in an Electric Field   728
23-5 APPLYING GAUSS’ LAW: PLANAR SYMMETRY   673
25-5 CAPACITOR WITH A DIELECTRIC   731
Applying Gauss’ Law: Planar Symmetry   673
Capacitor with a Dielectric   731
23-6 APPLYING GAUSS’ LAW: SPHERICAL SYMMETRY   675 Dielectrics: An Atomic View   733
Applying Gauss’ Law: Spherical Symmetry   675
25-6 DIELECTRICS AND GAUSS’ LAW   735
REVIEW & SUMMARY 677  QUESTIONS 677  PROBLEMS 679 Dielectrics and Gauss’ Law   735

24 Electric Potential  685 REVIEW & SUMMARY 738  QUESTIONS 738  PROBLEMS 739

24-1 ELECTRIC POTENTIAL  685


What Is Physics?   685 26 Current and Resistance   745
Electric Potential and Electric Potential Energy   686 26-1 ELECTRIC CURRENT  745
What Is Physics?   745
24-2 EQUIPOTENTIAL SURFACES AND THE ELECTRIC Electric Current   746
FIELD  690
Equipotential Surfaces   690 26-2 CURRENT DENSITY  748
Calculating the Potential from the Field   691 Current Density   749

24-3 POTENTIAL DUE TO A CHARGED PARTICLE   694 26-3 RESISTANCE AND RESISTIVITY  752
Potential Due to a Charged Particle   694 Resistance and Resistivity   753
Potential Due to a Group of Charged Particles   695
26-4 OHM’S LAW  756
24-4 POTENTIAL DUE TO AN ELECTRIC DIPOLE   697 Ohm’s Law   756
Potential Due to an Electric Dipole   697 A Microscopic View of Ohm’s Law   758
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26-5 POWER, SEMICONDUCTORS, 28-8 THE MAGNETIC DIPOLE MOMENT   824


SUPERCONDUCTORS  760 The Magnetic Dipole Moment   825
Power in Electric Circuits   760 REVIEW & SUMMARY 827  QUESTIONS 827  PROBLEMS 829
Semiconductors  762
Superconductors  763
29 Magnetic Fields Due to Currents   836
REVIEW & SUMMARY 763  QUESTIONS 764  PROBLEMS 765
29-1 MAGNETIC FIELD DUE TO A CURRENT   836
What Is Physics?   836
27 Circuits  771 Calculating the Magnetic Field Due to a Current   837
27-1 SINGLE-LOOP CIRCUITS  771
29-2 FORCE BETWEEN TWO PARALLEL CURRENTS   842
What Is Physics?   772
Force Between Two Parallel Currents   842
“Pumping” Charges   772
Work, Energy, and Emf   773 29-3 AMPERE’S LAW   844
Calculating the Current in a Single-Loop Circuit   774 Ampere’s Law   844
Other Single-Loop Circuits   776
Potential Difference Between Two Points   777 29-4 SOLENOIDS AND TOROIDS   848
Solenoids and Toroids   848
27-2 MULTILOOP CIRCUITS  781
Multiloop Circuits   781 29-5 A CURRENT-CARRYING COIL AS A MAGNETIC DIPOLE   851
A Current-Carrying Coil as a Magnetic Dipole   851
27-3 THE AMMETER AND THE VOLTMETER   788 REVIEW & SUMMARY 854  QUESTIONS 855  PROBLEMS 856
The Ammeter and the Voltmeter   788

27-4 RC CIRCUITS   788 30 Induction and Inductance   864


RC Circuits   789 30-1 FARADAY’S LAW AND LENZ’S LAW   864
REVIEW & SUMMARY 793  QUESTIONS 793  PROBLEMS 795 What Is Physics?   864
Two Experiments   865
Faraday’s Law of Induction   865
28 Magnetic Fields  803
→ Lenz’s Law   868
28-1 MAGNETIC FIELDS AND THE DEFINITION OF B   803
What Is Physics?   803 30-2 INDUCTION AND ENERGY TRANSFERS   871
What Produces a → Magnetic Field?   804 Induction and Energy Transfers   871
The Definition of B   804
30-3 INDUCED ELECTRIC FIELDS   874
28-2 CROSSED FIELDS: DISCOVERY OF THE Induced Electric Fields   875
ELECTRON  808
30-4 INDUCTORS AND INDUCTANCE  879
Crossed Fields: Discovery of the Electron   809
Inductors and Inductance   879
28-3 CROSSED FIELDS: THE HALL EFFECT   810 30-5 SELF-INDUCTION  881
Crossed Fields: The Hall Effect   811 Self-Induction  881
28-4 A CIRCULATING CHARGED PARTICLE   814 30-6 RL CIRCUITS   882
A Circulating Charged Particle   814 RL Circuits   883

28-5 CYCLOTRONS AND SYNCHROTRONS  817 30-7 ENERGY STORED IN A MAGNETIC FIELD   887
Cyclotrons and Synchrotrons   818 Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field   887

28-6 MAGNETIC FORCE ON A CURRENT-CARRYING 30-8 ENERGY DENSITY OF A MAGNETIC FIELD   889


WIRE  820 Energy Density of a Magnetic Field   889
Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire   820
30-9 MUTUAL INDUCTION  890
28-7 TORQUE ON A CURRENT LOOP   822 Mutual Induction   890
Torque on a Current Loop   822 REVIEW & SUMMARY 893  QUESTIONS 893  PROBLEMS 895
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31 Electromagnetic Oscillations and 32-8 FERROMAGNETISM  961


Alternating Current   903 Ferromagnetism  961
31-1 LC OSCILLATIONS   903 REVIEW & SUMMARY 964  QUESTIONS 965  PROBLEMS 967

What Is Physics?   904


LC Oscillations, Qualitatively   904 33 Electromagnetic Waves  972
The Electrical-Mechanical Analogy   906 33-1 ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES  972
LC Oscillations, Quantitatively   907 What Is Physics?   972
31-2 DAMPED OSCILLATIONS IN AN RLC CIRCUIT   910 Maxwell’s Rainbow   973
Damped Oscillations in an RLC Circuit   911 The Traveling Electromagnetic Wave, Qualitatively   974
The Traveling Electromagnetic Wave, Quantitatively   977
31-3 FORCED OSCILLATIONS OF THREE SIMPLE
CIRCUITS  912 33-2 ENERGY TRANSPORT AND THE POYNTING
Alternating Current   913 VECTOR  980
Forced Oscillations   914 Energy Transport and the Poynting Vector   981
Three Simple Circuits   914
33-3 RADIATION PRESSURE  983
31-4 THE SERIES RLC CIRCUIT   921 Radiation Pressure   983
The Series RLC Circuit   921
33-4 POLARIZATION  985
31-5 POWER IN ALTERNATING-CURRENT Polarization  985
CIRCUITS  927
Power in Alternating-Current Circuits   927 33-5 REFLECTION AND REFRACTION  990
Reflection and Refraction   991
31-6 TRANSFORMERS   930
Transformers  930 33-6 TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION   996
Total Internal Reflection   996
REVIEW & SUMMARY 933  QUESTIONS 934  PROBLEMS 935

33-7 POLARIZATION BY REFLECTION   997


32 Maxwell’s Equations; Magnetism Polarization by Reflection   998
of Matter   941 REVIEW & SUMMARY 999  QUESTIONS 1000  PROBLEMS 1001
32-1 GAUSS’ LAW FOR MAGNETIC FIELDS   941
What Is Physics?   941 34 Images  1010
Gauss’ Law for Magnetic Fields   942
34-1 IMAGES AND PLANE MIRRORS   1010
32-2 INDUCED MAGNETIC FIELDS   943 What Is Physics?   1010
Induced Magnetic Fields   943 Two Types of Image   1010­
Plane Mirrors   1012
32-3 DISPLACEMENT CURRENT  946
Displacement Current   947 34-2 SPHERICAL MIRRORS  1014
Maxwell’s Equations   949 Spherical Mirrors   1015
Images from Spherical Mirrors   1016
32-4 MAGNETS  950
Magnets  950 34-3 SPHERICAL REFRACTING SURFACES   1020
Spherical Refracting Surfaces   1020
32-5 MAGNETISM AND ELECTRONS  952
Magnetism and Electrons   953 34-4 THIN LENSES   1023
Magnetic Materials   956 Thin Lenses   1023

32-6 DIAMAGNETISM  957 34-5 OPTICAL INSTRUMENTS  1030


Diamagnetism  957 Optical Instruments   1030

32-7 PARAMAGNETISM  959 34-6 THREE PROOFS   1033


Paramagnetism  959 REVIEW & SUMMARY 1036  QUESTIONS 1037  PROBLEMS 1038
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35 Interference  1047 Measuring an Event   1118


35-1 LIGHT AS A WAVE   1047 The Relativity of Simultaneity   1120
What Is Physics?   1047 The Relativity of Time   1121
Light as a Wave   1048
37-2 THE RELATIVITY OF LENGTH   1125
35-2 YOUNG’S INTERFERENCE EXPERIMENT   1053 The Relativity of Length   1126
Diffraction  1053
37-3 THE LORENTZ TRANSFORMATION   1129
Young’s Interference Experiment   1054
The Lorentz Transformation   1129
35-3 INTERFERENCE AND DOUBLE-SLIT INTENSITY   1059 Some Consequences of the Lorentz Equations   1131
Coherence  1059
37-4 THE RELATIVITY OF VELOCITIES   1133
Intensity in Double-Slit Interference   1060
The Relativity of Velocities   1133
35-4 INTERFERENCE FROM THIN FILMS   1063
37-5 DOPPLER EFFECT FOR LIGHT   1134
Interference from Thin Films   1064
Doppler Effect for Light   1135
35-5 MICHELSON’S INTERFEROMETER  1070
37-6 MOMENTUM AND ENERGY  1137
Michelson’s Interferometer   1071
A New Look at Momentum   1138
REVIEW & SUMMARY 1072  QUESTIONS 1072  PROBLEMS 1074 A New Look at Energy   1138
REVIEW & SUMMARY 1143  QUESTIONS 1144  PROBLEMS 1145
36 Diffraction  1081
36-1 SINGLE-SLIT DIFFRACTION  1081
38 Photons and Matter Waves   1153
What Is Physics?   1081
Diffraction and the Wave Theory of Light   1081 38-1 THE PHOTON, THE QUANTUM OF LIGHT   1153
Diffraction by a Single Slit: Locating the Minima   1083 What Is Physics?   1153
The Photon, the Quantum of Light   1154
36-2 INTENSITY IN SINGLE-SLIT DIFFRACTION   1086
38-2 THE PHOTOELECTRIC EFFECT   1155
Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction   1086
The Photoelectric Effect   1156
Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction, Quantitatively   1088
38-3 PHOTONS, MOMENTUM, COMPTON SCATTERING, LIGHT
36-3 DIFFRACTION BY A CIRCULAR APERTURE   1090
INTERFERENCE  1158
Diffraction by a Circular Aperture   1091
Photons Have Momentum   1159
36-4 DIFFRACTION BY A DOUBLE SLIT   1094 Light as a Probability Wave   1162
Diffraction by a Double Slit   1095 38-4 THE BIRTH OF QUANTUM PHYSICS   1164
36-5 DIFFRACTION GRATINGS  1098 The Birth of Quantum Physics   1165
Diffraction Gratings   1098 38-5 ELECTRONS AND MATTER WAVES   1166
Electrons and Matter Waves   1167
36-6 GRATINGS: DISPERSION AND RESOLVING
POWER  1101 38-6 SCHRÖDINGER’S EQUATION  1170
Gratings: Dispersion and Resolving Power   1101 Schrödinger’s Equation   1170

36-7 X-RAY DIFFRACTION  1104 38-7 HEISENBERG’S UNCERTAINTY PRINCIPLE   1172


X-Ray Diffraction   1104 Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle   1173
REVIEW & SUMMARY 1107  QUESTIONS 1107  PROBLEMS 1108
38-8 REFLECTION FROM A POTENTIAL STEP   1174
Reflection from a Potential Step   1174
37 Relativity  1116
37-1 SIMULTANEITY AND TIME DILATION   1116 38-9 TUNNELING THROUGH A POTENTIAL BARRIER   1176
What Is Physics?   1116 Tunneling Through a Potential Barrier   1176
The Postulates   1117 REVIEW & SUMMARY 1179  QUESTIONS 1180  PROBLEMS 1181
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39 More About Matter Waves   1186 41 Conduction of Electricity in Solids   1252


39-1 ENERGIES OF A TRAPPED ELECTRON   1186 41-1 THE ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF METALS   1252
What Is Physics?   1186 What Is Physics?   1253
String Waves and Matter Waves   1187 The Electrical Properties of Solids   1253
Energies of a Trapped Electron   1187 Energy Levels in a Crystalline Solid   1254
Insulators  1254
39-2 WAVE FUNCTIONS OF A TRAPPED
Metals  1255
ELECTRON  1191
Wave Functions of a Trapped Electron   1192 41-2 SEMICONDUCTORS AND DOPING  1261
Semiconductors  1262
39-3 AN ELECTRON IN A FINITE WELL   1195
Doped Semiconductors   1263
An Electron in a Finite Well   1195

39-4 TWO- AND THREE-DIMENSIONAL ELECTRON 41-3 THE p-n JUNCTION AND THE TRANSISTOR   1265
TRAPS  1197 The p-n­Junction   1266
More Electron Traps   1197 The Junction Rectifier   1267
Two- and Three-Dimensional Electron Traps   1200 The Light-Emitting Diode (LED)   1268
The Transistor   1270
39-5 THE HYDROGEN ATOM   1201 REVIEW & SUMMARY 1271  QUESTIONS 1272  PROBLEMS 1272
The Hydrogen Atom Is an Electron Trap   1202
The Bohr Model of Hydrogen, a Lucky Break   1203 42 Nuclear Physics  1276
Schrödinger’s Equation and the Hydrogen Atom   1205 42-1 DISCOVERING THE NUCLEUS  1276
REVIEW & SUMMARY 1213  QUESTIONS 1213  PROBLEMS 1214 What Is Physics?   1276
Discovering the Nucleus   1276
40 All About Atoms   1219
40-1 PROPERTIES OF ATOMS  1219 42-2 SOME NUCLEAR PROPERTIES   1279
What Is Physics?   1220 Some Nuclear Properties   1280
Some Properties of Atoms   1220
42-3 RADIOACTIVE DECAY  1286
Angular Momentum, Magnetic Dipole Moments   1222
Radioactive Decay   1286
40-2 THE STERN–GERLACH EXPERIMENT   1226
42-4 ALPHA DECAY   1289
The Stern–Gerlach Experiment   1226
Alpha Decay   1289
40-3 MAGNETIC RESONANCE  1229
42-5 BETA DECAY  1292
Magnetic Resonance   1229
Beta Decay   1292
40-4 EXCLUSION PRINCIPLE AND MULTIPLE ELECTRONS
42-6 RADIOACTIVE DATING  1295
IN A TRAP   1230
Radioactive Dating   1295
The Pauli Exclusion Principle   1230
Multiple Electrons in Rectangular Traps   1231 42-7 MEASURING RADIATION DOSAGE   1296
Measuring Radiation Dosage   1296
40-5 BUILDING THE PERIODIC TABLE   1234
Building the Periodic Table   1234 42-8 NUCLEAR MODELS  1297
Nuclear Models   1297
40-6 X RAYS AND THE ORDERING OF THE
ELEMENTS  1236 REVIEW & SUMMARY 1300  QUESTIONS 1301  PROBLEMS 1302

X Rays and the Ordering of the Elements   1237


43 Energy from the Nucleus   1309
40-7 LASERS  1240 43-1 NUCLEAR FISSION  1309
Lasers and Laser Light   1241 What Is Physics?   1309
How Lasers Work   1242 Nuclear Fission: The Basic Process   1310
REVIEW & SUMMARY 1245  QUESTIONS 1246  PROBLEMS 1247 A Model for Nuclear Fission   1312
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43-2 THE NUCLEAR REACTOR   1316 44-3 QUARKS AND MESSENGER PARTICLES   1349
The Nuclear Reactor   1316 The Quark Model   1349
The Basic Forces and Messenger Particles   1352
43-3 A NATURAL NUCLEAR REACTOR   1320
A Natural Nuclear Reactor   1320 44-4 COSMOLOGY  1355
A Pause for Reflection   1355
43-4 THERMONUCLEAR FUSION: THE BASIC The Universe Is Expanding   1356
PROCESS  1322 The Cosmic Background Radiation   1357
Thermonuclear Fusion: The Basic Process   1322 Dark Matter   1358
43-5 THERMONUCLEAR FUSION IN THE SUN AND OTHER The Big Bang   1358
STARS  1324 A Summing Up   1361
Thermonuclear Fusion in the Sun and Other Stars   1324 REVIEW & SUMMARY 1362  QUESTIONS 1362  PROBLEMS 1363

43-6 CONTROLLED THERMONUCLEAR FUSION  1326


APPENDICES
Controlled Thermonuclear Fusion   1326
A The International System of Units (SI)   A-1
REVIEW & SUMMARY 1329  QUESTIONS 1329  PROBLEMS 1330 B Some Fundamental Constants of Physics   A-3
C Some Astronomical Data  A-4
44 Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang   1334 D Conversion Factors  A-5
44-1 GENERAL PROPERTIES OF ELEMENTARY E Mathematical Formulas  A-9
PARTICLES  1334 F Properties of The Elements   A-12
What Is Physics?   1334 G Periodic Table of The Elements   A-15
Particles, Particles, Particles   1335
An Interlude   1339
ANSWERS
44-2 LEPTONS, HADRONS, AND STRANGENESS   1343 To Checkpoints and Odd-Numbered Questions and Problems   AN-1
The Leptons   1343
The Hadrons   1345 I N D E X I-1
Still Another Conservation Law   1346
The Eightfold Way   1347
P R E F A C E

HOW TO USE THE 11TH EDITION OF FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS


The WileyPLUS Course for Fundamentals of Physics is now in its 11th edition. You will note that
this print component does not have an edition number. This is because while we completely over-
hauled the WP course for the 11th edition, we did not change anything in the print version other
than this preface. It is our hope that students will use the 11th edition of Fundamentals of Physics in
­WileyPLUS as their sole course material. If they do need a print companion, the edition previously
sold as the 10th edition is available to them.

A LETTER FROM THE AUTHOR


PHYSICS FOR RACHAEL
The eleventh edition of Fundamentals of Physics is an online, interactive, digital learning center with-
in WileyPLUS. My working title for the “book” portion of the center is Physics for Rachael because
I originated its design when Rachael Catrina was in my first semester physics class.

Rachael Catrina and Jearl Walker


Photo courtesy of Rachael Catrina

Within the first few weeks, Rachael began to come to my office for help. I soon realized that,
although she was eager to succeed, she was not learning enough by reading the textbook and she
was not gaining enough information from my lectures to do the homework or prepare for the exams.
So, we began discussions of the physics in two-hour sessions each week for the rest of the semester.
I would explain some physics and then ask guiding questions. She would respond. If she was wrong,
I would tell her the correct answer and why. Instead of passive reading in the textbook or passive
listening to the lectures, we had a back-and-forth exchange of questions and explanations. Passive
switched to engaged. She learned the physics. I learned how a modern student thinks.
At the end of the semester, I pitched the idea of converting Fundamentals 10e to be an online,
digital, interactive “book” to the publisher, John Wiley & Sons. Together we have now transformed
the traditional book of thousands of declarative sentences into a Rachael-type of discourse. In each
chapter section, I explain some physics and then ask guiding questions, which the online student will
answer. If the student’s answer is wrong, then I indicate the correct answer and why. In that way
I guide the student through the chapter. The book is now much more than just a book. Rather, it
is part of a learning center with information, interactive challenges, activities, games (which can be
group activities), and embedded media. The reality is that today most students taking the introduc-
tory physics course are like Rachael in that they need lots of guidance and interaction. Although
I cannot be available in person for each student as I was for Rachael, this digital and interactive
resource is available 24/7.

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Brad Trees of Ohio Wesleyan University has contributed many interactive exercises and simu-
lations within the Rachael chapters and within WileyPLUS. They will engage the students in visual
ways, challenging them to dig deeper into the physics than the standard homework problems. Many
are based on real-world applications of physics and offer animations of time dependent phenomena.

WHAT’S NEW IN THE ELEVENTH EDITION


Interactive Exercises and Simulations by Brad Trees of Ohio Wesleyan University. How do we help
students understand challenging concepts in physics? How do we motivate students to engage with
core content in a meaningful way? The new simulations accompanying the eleventh edition of Fun-
damentals of Physics are intended to address these key questions. Each module in the Etext is linked
to one or more simulations that convey concepts visually. A simulation depicts a physical situation in
which time dependent phenomena are animated and information is presented in multiple represen-
tations including a visual representation of the physical system as well as a plot of related variables.
­Often, adjustable parameters allow the user to change a property of the system and to see the effects
of that change on the subsequent behavior. For visual learners, the simulations provide an opportuni-
ty to “see” the physics in action. Each simulation is also linked to a set of interactive e­ xercises, which
guides the student through a deeper interaction with the physics underlying the simulation. The
exercises consist of a series of practice questions with feedback and detailed solutions. Instructors
may choose to assign the exercises for practice, to recommend the exercises to students as ­additional
practice, and to show individual simulations during class time to demonstrate a concept and to moti-
vate class discussion.

Questions throughout the chapter narratives   Every section (module) of a chapter contains
questions that guide a student through the physics or explore a figure or video. An answer and
an explanation are provided for each question. There are no “traps” that prevent a student from
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­ rogressing through the chapter. A student’s progress is reported to an online gradebook, for
p
a ­student’s personal use or for an instructor’s grade assessment.

Games and opportunities for group work   Each chapter contains a game based on key ideas in
the chapter and presented in a fun manner. The games can also be used as group exercises or a break
in a long lecture or for flipped classrooms. Answers and explanations are always provided.

Physics Circus

Derivations  In a print book, students very rarely read a derivation, much less study it. In the
Rachael version of Fundamentals of Physics, the student will work through every derivation by
answering several questions along the way, with the results reported to the online gradebook. Thus,
the student can understand the result and its limitations rather than merely using it as a plug-in
equation.

Sample Problems   Every Sample Problem (about 15 per chapter) has been transformed from a
passive reading experience to a series of interactive steps, with the results reported to the online
gradebook. In some Sample Problems, a student works through the calculations with a series of
guiding questions. In others, a student follows a link to one of my videos and then answers several
questions after the video.

Video Links   Links to video explanations, interactive figures, and demonstrations are now embed-
ded in the narrative, and every link is followed by an interactive series of questions, with the results
reported to the online gradebook.

Roll-over figures   Some of the more challenging figures have been converted so that a student can
see different aspects by rolling over the figure.

WILEYPLUS
WileyPLUS is a dynamic learning center stocked with many different learning aids, including just-
in-time problem-solving tutorials, reading quizzes (to encourage reading about the physics prior
to lectures), animated figures, hundreds of sample problems with worked-out solutions, numerous
­demonstrations, and over 1500 videos ranging from math reviews to mini-lectures to examples. All are
available 24/7 and can be repeated as many times as desired. Thus, if a student gets stuck on a home-
work problem at, say, 2:00 AM (which appears to be a popular time for doing physics homework),
friendly and helpful resources are available.

Learning Tools   When I learned first-year physics in the first edition of Halliday and Resnick, I
caught on by repeatedly rereading a chapter. These days we better understand that students have a
wide range of learning styles. So, Physics for Rachael and WileyPLUS contain many different learn-
ing tools. Here are a few.

Free-body diagrams   In chapters involving vector addition (such as the chapters on Newton’s
laws, Coulomb’s law, and electric fields), a number of the homework problems require a student to
construct a free-body diagram.
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Links between homework problems and learning objectives  Every homework question and
problem are linked to a learning objective, to answer the (usually unspoken) questions, “Why am I
working this problem? What am I supposed to learn from it?” By being explicit about a problem’s pur-
pose, I believe that a student might better transfer the learning objective to other problems with a differ-
ent wording but the same key idea. Such transference would defeat the common trouble that a student
learns to work a particular problem but cannot then apply its key idea to a problem in a different setting.

Video Illustrations   David Maiullo of Rutgers University has created video versions of approximately
30 of the photographs and figures from 10e. Links to
many of them are embedded in the chapters and all
are linked out of WileyPLUS. Much of physics is the
study of things that move, and video can often provide
better representation than a static photo or figure.

Animations   Each chapter contains an embedded


link to an animation of a key figure. I chose the
figures that are rich in information so that a student
can see the physics in action and played out over a
minute or two.

Videos  I have made well over 1500 instructional


videos, with more coming. Students can watch me
draw or type on the screen as they hear me talk
about a solution, tutorial, sample problem, or review,
very much as they would experience were they sit-
ting next to me in my office while I worked out
something on a notepad. An instructor’s lectures and
tutoring will always be the most valuable learning
tools, but my videos are available 24 hours a day, 7
days a week, and can be repeated indefinitely.
• Video tutorials on subjects in the chapters. I chose
the subjects that challenge the students the most, the
ones that my students scratch their heads about.
• Video reviews of high school math, such as basic
algebraic manipulations, trig functions, and simulta-
neous equations.
• Video introductions to math, such as vector multi-
plication, that will be new to the students.
• Video presentations of Sample Problems. My in-
tent is to work out the physics, starting with the Key
Ideas instead of just grabbing a formula. However, I
also want to demonstrate how to read a sample prob-
lem, that is, how to read technical material to learn
problem-solving procedures that can be transferred
to other types of problems.
• Video solutions to 20% of the end-of chapter prob-
lems. The availability and timing of these solutions
are controlled by the instructor. For example, they
might be available after a homework deadline or a
quiz. Each solution is not simply a plug-and-chug
recipe. Rather I build a solution from the Key Ideas
to the first step of reasoning and to a final solution.
The student learns not just how to solve a particular
problem but how to tackle any problem, even those
that require physics courage.
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• Video examples of how to read data from graphs (more than simply reading off a number with no
comprehension of the physics).

Problem-Solving Help   I have written a large number of resources for WileyPLUS designed to
help build the students’ problem-solving skills.
• Hundreds of additional sample problems. These are available as stand-alone resources but (at the
discretion of the instructor) they are also linked out of the homework problems. So, if a homework
problem deals with, say, forces on a block on a ramp, a link to a related sample problem is provided.
However, the sample problem is not just a replica of the homework problem and thus does not pro-
vide a solution that can be merely duplicated without comprehension.
• GO Tutorials for 15% of the end-of-chapter homework problems. In multiple steps, I lead a student
through a homework problem, starting with the Key Ideas and giving hints when wrong answers are
submitted. However, I purposely leave the last step (for the final answer) to the students so that they
are responsible at the end. Some online tutorial systems trap a student when wrong answers are given,
which can generate a lot of frustration. My GO Tutorials are not traps, because at any step along the
way, a student can return to the main problem.
• Hints on every end-of-chapter homework problem are available (at the discretion of the instruc-
tor). I wrote these as true hints about the main ideas and the general procedure for a solution, not
as recipes that provide an answer without any ­comprehension.
Evaluation Materials
• Pre-lecture reading questions are available in WileyPLUS for each chapter section. I wrote these
so that they do not ­require analysis or any deep understanding; rather they simply test whether a
student has read the section. When a student opens up a section, a randomly chosen reading question
(from a bank of questions) appears at the end. The instructor can decide whether the question is part
of the grading for that section or whether it is just for the benefit of the student.
• Checkpoints are available within chapter sections. I wrote these so that they require analysis and
decisions about the physics in the section. Answers and explanations are given for each, and the re-
sults are reported to the online gradebook.
• All end-of-chapter homework Problems (and many more problems) are available in WileyPLUS.
The instructor can construct a homework assignment and control how it is graded when the a­ nswers
are submitted online. For example, the instructor controls the deadline for submission and how
many attempts a student is allowed on an answer. The instructor also controls which, if any, ­learning
aids are available with each homework problem. Such links can include hints, sample problems,
in-chapter reading materials, video tutorials, video math reviews, and even video solutions (which
can be made available to the students after, say, a homework deadline).
• Symbolic notation problems that require algebraic answers are available in every chapter.
• All end-of-chapter homework Questions are available for assignment in WileyPLUS. These Ques-
tions (in a multiple choice format) are designed to evaluate the students’ conceptual ­understanding.

FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS-FORMAT OPTIONS


Fundamentals of Physics was designed to optimize students’ online learning experience. We high-
ly recommend that students use the digital course within WileyPLUS as their primary course
material. If, however, a print version is required, it is available, but please note that the content
in the text differs from the content in the WileyPLUS course. Here are students’ purchase options
and ISBNs:
• 11E WileyPLUS course
• Fundamentals of Physics Looseleaf Print Companion bundled with WileyPLUS
• Fundamentals of Physics vol 1 bundled with WileyPLUS
• Fundamentals of Physics vol 2 bundled with WileyPLUS
• Fundamentals of Physics Vitalsource etext
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INSTRUCTOR SUPPLEMENTS
Instructor’s Solutions Manual by Sen-Ben Liao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. This
manual provides worked-out solutions for all problems found at the end of each chapter. It is avail-
able in both MSWord and PDF.

Instructor Companion Site http://www.wiley.com/college/halliday


• Instructor’s Manual This resource contains lecture notes outlining the most important topics of
each chapter; demonstration experiments; laboratory and computer projects; film and video sources;
answers to all Questions, Exercises, Problems, and Checkpoints; and a correlation guide to the Ques-
tions, Exercises, and Problems in the previous edition. It also contains a complete list of all problems
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FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS
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C H A P T E R 1

Measurement
1-1 MEASURING THINGS, INCLUDING LENGTHS
Learning Objectives
After reading this module, you should be able to . . .
1.01 Identify the base quantities in the SI system. 1.03 Change units (here for length, area, and volume) by
1.02 Name the most frequently used prefixes for using chain-link conversions.
SI units. 1.04 Explain that the meter is defined in terms of the
speed of light in vacuum.

Key Ideas
● Physics is based on measurement of physical quanti- i­nternational agreement. These standards are used in all
ties. Certain physical quantities have been chosen as base physical measurement, for both the base quantities and
quantities (such as length, time, and mass); each has been the quantities derived from them. Scientific notation and
defined in terms of a standard and given a unit of measure the prefixes of Table 1-2 are used to simplify measure-
(such as meter, second, and kilogram). Other physical ment notation.
quantities are defined in terms of the base quantities and ● Conversion of units may be performed by using chain-
their standards and units. link conversions in which the original data are multiplied
● The unit system emphasized in this book is the Interna- successively by conversion factors written as unity and
tional System of Units (SI). The three physical quantities the units are manipulated like algebraic quantities until
displayed in Table 1-1 are used in the early chapters. only the desired units remain.
Standards, which must be both accessible and invari- ● The meter is defined as the distance traveled by light
able, have been established for these base quantities by during a precisely specified time interval.

What Is Physics?
Science and engineering are based on measurements and comparisons. Thus,
we need rules about how things are measured and compared, and we need
­experiments to establish the units for those measurements and comparisons. One
purpose of physics (and engineering) is to design and conduct those e­ xperiments.
For example, physicists strive to develop clocks of extreme accuracy so that any
time or time interval can be precisely determined and compared. You may wonder
whether such accuracy is actually needed or worth the effort. Here is one example
of the worth: Without clocks of extreme accuracy, the Global Positioning System
(GPS) that is now vital to worldwide navigation would be useless.

Measuring Things
We discover physics by learning how to measure the quantities involved in
­physics. Among these quantities are length, time, mass, temperature, pressure,
and electric current.
We measure each physical quantity in its own units, by comparison with a
standard. The unit is a unique name we assign to measures of that quantity—for
example, meter (m) for the quantity length. The standard corresponds to exactly
1.0 unit of the quantity. As you will see, the standard for length, which corresponds
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[523] I give the narrative as related by concurrent tradition,
which I can only question when there is strong internal probability
against it. It would, no doubt, have been satisfactory to have had
some evidence of Muâvia’s deceptive course of action. It may,
however, all be true, for Muâvia was never overscrupulous. But
we have no proof excepting fama clamans; and court influence
under the Abbassides disposed the historians of the day to make
the most of every report that was damaging to the character of
the Omeyyad dynasty. The reader must, therefore, be cautious of
accepting implicitly all these imputations of underhand
machination.
[524] Aly’s cousins (sons of Jáfar, the Prophet’s uncle) appear
to have encouraged the suspicions against Cays, hoping thus to
pave the way for the appointment of Mohammed son of Abu Bekr,
who was their uterine brother (Abu Bekr married Jafar’s widow,
Life of Mahomet, p. 410).
[525] One of his sons is said to have advised Amru to remain
in retirement and leave the impending conflict to be settled by
those immediately concerned. The other urged that it was not
becoming one of his father’s rank and dignity to be neutral. The
former, Amru advised (so runs the Abbasside tradition), him the
best for his spiritual advantage; the latter for his temporal, and he
followed it.
[526] The oath reminds one of a similar vow taken by Hind
after the battle of Bedr. (Life of Mahomet, p. 246.)
[527] The western detachment, 12,000 strong, was forced by
the hostile attitude of Syria hastily to retrace its steps as far as
Hît, where they recrossed the river, and then marched north
through Mesopotamia. They were so long delayed that Aly, with
the main body, reached Ricca first, and, on seeing them come up,
naïvely exclaimed, ‘Lo, here is my advanced column in the rear!’
The main body took the Tigris route, perhaps as affording
better forage at that dry season of the year.
[528] When the people refused to throw a bridge of boats over
the river at Ricca, a detachment moved farther up, intending to
cross by the standing bridge at Membaj; but meanwhile Ashtar
threatened to put the inhabitants to the sword, and so had a
bridge constructed at Ricca. Ricca (Nicephorium) is at the
junction of the Belîk with the Euphrates, at which point the Great
River, in its upper course, trends westward, and thus approaches
Aleppo. Sûr al Rûm (now in ruins) is a little way west of Ricca. It
is near Thapsacus of the ancients, on the line of the march of
Cyrus.
[529] Freedmen begin to play prominent parts. Aly, on his side,
gave a banner to Kinbar, his freedman, and put him in command
of a column; and a verse of Amru’s has been preserved in which
he pits the one freedman against the other.
[530a]The tendency of tradition, which continues to be cast, as
a rule, in an Abbasside mould, is, throughout, to speak
disparagingly of Muâvia, and eulogistically of Aly. Thus Aly is
represented as sending Sassâa to ask Muâvia’s leave for his
army to get water from the river until they had had the opportunity
of settling their differences. Amru was for yielding to the request;
but Muâvia, counselled by Welîd and Abu Sarh, declined. A
skirmish ensued, and the Syrians were beaten from their ground.
Then Aly’s people wished to refuse water to the Syrians; but Aly
was more generous, and allowed them to take what water they
wanted.
Siffîn was to the west of Ricca, about half-way to Balîs (one of
Chesney’s steamer stations), opposite the fort of Jabor or Dansa,
and about 100 miles from the coast. It lay south-east of Aleppo,
and north-east of Hims.
[530]In the Persian version of Tabari, numbers are said to
have been slain every day; but no details nor any names are
given, so the casualties could not have been very serious. Blood
was not yet inflamed.
It is significant that Aly’s deputations to Muâvia, as well as the
commanders of his columns (whose names are given), were
almost exclusively Bedouin chiefs; that is to say, there were
hardly any of the Coreish or of the citizens of Medîna amongst
them, excepting Cays, the ex-Governor of Egypt. Muâvia, on the
contrary, had many such around him, as Obeidallah son of Omar,
Abdallah son of Khâlid, Habîb ibn Maslama, &c.
[531] Ammâr, the ex-Governor of Kûfa, was son of the bond-
woman Sommeya. (See above, p. 268.) Othmân’s freedman was
slain in the first onslaught of the conspirators. (Ibid. p. 340.)
Ammâr’s life was forfeit, they meant to say, for the lesser crime,
but much more for the assassination of the Caliph.
[532] Thus the first day Ashtar was in command against Habîb
ibn Maslama; then Hâshim ibn Otba (the hero of Câdesîya)
against Abul Aûr; on the third day Ammâr against one of Amru’s
sons, and so on. After six days the turn came round again to
Ashtar and Habîb. But it all reads somewhat too made up.
[533] Mohammed son of Aly was challenged by Obeidallah
son of Omar. When Aly saw this, he put spurs to his horse and
would have taken his son’s place, whereupon the latter returned
to the ranks, saying, ‘Why didst thou not leave me alone, and I
should have slain my man? And how couldst thou, my father, offer
single combat to such a scoundrel, and the son of one (Omar)
who was so inferior to thee?’ ‘Hush!’ said Aly, ‘speak nought of his
father but good.’ Many instances are given of brothers and near
relatives meeting each other in conflicting ranks, and turning
aside from the fight in consequence;—so much was society, even
to the domestic circle, rent by the civil war.
[534] Readers or Reciters of the Corân (corâa), those, namely,
who, having it by heart, were able to repeat it from beginning to
end. They were the most fanatical part of the Moslem forces,
answering to the Ghâzies of our own day.
[535] Other versions are given of Ammâr’s last words by the
Secretary of Wâckidy, as this: ‘The thirsty man longeth for water;
and here, close by, it welleth up. Descend to the spring (death)
and drink. This is the joyful day of meeting with friends, with
Mahomet and his Companions.’ The various versions all portend
the same wild fanatical spirit which influenced the Moslem armies
in the first battles against the infidels, and which was now being
imported equally into the civil war against their own brethren in
the faith.
[536] This curious saying, attributed to the Prophet (the same
which alarmed Zobeir at the Battle of the Camel, see p. 363), is
thus explained. When Mahomet first arrived in Medîna and began
to build the Great Mosque there, his followers all put their
shoulders to the work, and began to carry loads of stone, &c.
upon their heads. Ammâr was laden with a double burden, and
Mahomet, seeing him fatigued, began to blow off the dust from his
head, saying kindly to him, ‘Ammâr! a cruel and unjust people will
surely slay thee;’ meaning apparently that ‘the people will surely
cause thy death by making thee carry such loads.’ Others
attribute the saying to the similar occasion when Medîna was
besieged, and the citizens dug the great Ditch, carrying away the
loads of earth. Whatever the occasion, the saying was treasured
up, and when the civil war broke out, was accepted, and ever
after quoted by their enemies, as conclusive evidence that the
Omeyyads were ‘the rebellious people’ foretold by Mahomet.
The idea had taken such hold of the Syrian army that Amru
said he was thankful that Dzul Kelâa (the great Himyarite hero
who fell fighting on Muâvia’s side) was slain before Ammâr’s
death, as otherwise it might have staggered his constancy to the
Syrian cause.
The saying itself, and the occasion on which Mahomet gave
utterance to it, assume such importance from their bearing on the
great dynastic controversy, that the Secretary of Wâckidy devotes
several pages to the multitudinous traditions on the subject. The
Alyites hold point-blank that ‘the truth must have been with
Ammâr, and that it accompanied him on whichever side he
fought.’ (Kâtíb Wâckidi, fol. 228–230.)
Mahomet is said, also, to have foretold to Ammâr that his last
drink would be milk mingled with water; rather a safe prophecy,
seeing that it was Ammâr’s favourite beverage.
[537] Abu Mûsa had kept aloof from the battle, but must have
been in the neighbourhood. When told of the arbitration, he
exclaimed, ‘The Lord be praised, Who hath stayed the fighting!’
‘But thou art appointed Arbiter on our side.’ ‘Alas! alas!’ he cried;
and so, in much trepidation, he repaired to Aly’s camp. Ahnaf ibn
Cays asked to be appointed joint-Umpire with Abu Mûsa, who, he
said, was not the man to stand alone, nor had he tact and wit
enough for the task;—‘There is not a knot which Abu Mûsa can
tie, but I will unloose the same; nor a knot he can unloose, but I
will find another still harder to unravel.’ This was too true; but the
army was in an insolent and perverse mood, and would have
none but Abu Mûsa.
[538] An angry passage is given as occurring between Amru
and Aly, but it reads like an Abbasside invention. When Amru
objected to Aly being named ‘Caliph,’ or ‘Commander of the
Faithful,’ in the deed, Aly recalled to those around him the similar
occurrence at Hodeibia. He said that when he himself, on that
occasion, was reducing the truce to writing, the Coreish objected
to Mahomet being styled in it The Prophet of the Lord. ‘Well do I
remember,’ continued Aly, ‘when the Prophet desired me, at their
bidding, to erase the words; and then, when I hesitated, he
blotted them out with his own hand, and said to me, “The day will
come when thou, too, shalt be called on to make a like
concession, and thou shalt agree thereto.” ‘Out upon thee!’ cried
Amru; ‘dost thou liken us unto the Pagan Arabs, being good
believers?’ ‘And when,’ said Aly, answering indirectly, ‘shall the
Wicked not have a head, nor the Faithful an enemy?’ Whereupon
Amru swore that he never would sit in company with Aly again;
and Aly, on his part, expressed a similar determination. This
conversation may possibly have had some foundation in fact, but
it is abundantly coloured by Abbasside imagination. For the scene
at Hodeibia, see Life of Mahomet, p. 372.
[539] Some make the interval arranged for to have been eight
months. The ordinary term named by tradition is to Ramadhân or
February (a.d. 658), which was seven or eight months from the
date of the truce; others name Shabân, or January, making the
interval six; and this is the commonly received account.
[540] The Persian Tabari gives the slain on both sides from
first to last at 40,000, out of a total force of 130,000 men. Making
every allowance for exaggeration, the carnage must have been
great. The names of only a few ‘Companions’ are given; but now
these were rapidly disappearing from the scene, as the period of
a whole generation had elapsed since the Hegira. The chief
fighting, moreover, was between the Bedouins; those from the
north, as a rule, being on Aly’s side, and the Arabs of the south on
that of Muâvia. The numbers from Mecca and Medîna were
comparatively small. The prisoners taken on both sides were
released. Amru is spoken of as having advised to put them to
death, but this is altogether unlikely.
[541] See above, p. 226.
[542] Hence the seceders are sometimes called Harôrites.
[543] Dûma, to the extreme north of the peninsula, lies half-
way between Irâc and Syria, thus fulfilling the conditions of the
truce. Some place the scene at Adzroh.
Tabari (Persian translation) represents Abu Mûsa as at first
appearing unattended, and then, at Amru’s suggestion, sending
for the stipulated guard. It came under command of the Bedouin
chief Shoreih, who, we are told, carried an insolent message from
his master Aly to Amru, warning him against improper motives.
Amru resented the imputation, and an altercation ensued. The
tradition is from Alyite sources; but one can hardly credit Aly with
so indelicate a proceeding as the attempt by threats to influence
his adversary’s Umpire. The whole story is in the vein of
Abbasside abuse, which tramples on the memories of Muâvia and
Amru; and here we may well reject it in the interest of Aly himself.
[544] Among those who entertained expectations of the
Caliphate are named Abdallah son of Zobeir, the usurper of later
days; and Mohammed son of Talha. Opinion varies as to whether
Mohammed son of Abu Bekr was a candidate or not. Abdallah
son of Omar was present, but without any pretensions to the
Caliphate.
[545] He had a beautiful voice, ‘clear and sweet as a flute’
when he recited the Corân.
[546] At this point Mohammed son of Abbâs is represented as
interposing with these words: ‘Out upon thee, Abu Mûsa! he hath
overreached thee if indeed ye be agreed, and now he putteth
thee forward. Let him speak first, and thou after him. He is a
deceiver; he will make thee speak, then turn round and undo thy
words.’ But Abu Mûsa did not listen. Any such interposition,
however, is highly improbable. For it could hardly have been
foreseen in what particular way Amru was about to overreach Abu
Mûsa. Moreover the private conversation and agreement in the
pavilion between the Umpires is itself open to doubt; at any rate, it
is deeply coloured by Abbasside touches. But we have no other
narrative, and must take the story as we find it. And although
strange, and, in some of the details, improbable, it must be
admitted that the transaction is not inconsistent, as a whole, with
the wily character of Amru, who made himself notorious for
astuteness and ‘sharp practice.’
[547] We do not hear more of Abu Mûsa, who, however,
survived to a.h. 52, or, as others say, to a.h. 42. Some of his
grandsons held judicial office.
Many of the angry speeches at Dûma by the chief men, who
were bewildered at the strange dénouement, have been
preserved. These are some of them. The son of Omar: ‘See what
a pass Islam hath come to! Its great concern committed to two
men; one who knoweth not right from wrong, the other a
nincompoop.’ Abu Bekr’s son: ‘Would that Abu Mûsa had died
before this affair; it had been better for him.’ Abu Mûsa himself is
represented as abusing Amru in the language of the Corân: ‘His
likeness is as the likeness of a dog; if thou drive him away, he
putteth forth his tongue; and if thou leave him alone, still he
putteth forth his tongue.’ (Sura vii. 77.) ‘And thou,’ retorted Amru,
‘art like the donkey laden with books, and none the wiser for it.’
(Sura vi. 25.) Shureih, commander of the Kûfa escort, flew at
Amru, and they belaboured each other with their whips, till they
were separated by the people. Shureih exclaimed that he only
wished he had used his sword instead. But the tales are mostly of
the Abbasside type, and we cannot implicitly receive them.
[548] The imprecation used by Aly has been preserved, as
follows: ‘O Lord, I beseech thee, let Muâvia be accursed, and
Amru, and Abul Aûr, Habîb, Abdal Rahmân son of (the great)
Khâlid, Dhahhâk son of Cays, and Welîd! Let them be accursed
all!’ Muâvia’s imprecation, in the same way, included Aly, Ibn
Abbâs, Hasan and Hosein (sons of Aly), and Ashtar.
[549] The formula was: La hukm illa lillâhi. The political creed
of the Separatists was that, Believers being absolutely equal,
there should be no Caliph, nor oath of allegiance sworn to any
man; but that the government should be in the hands of a Council
of State elected by the people. When the loyalists heard this, to
counteract the evil, they said, ‘Come, let us swear a second oath
of fealty unto Aly, namely, that we shall support all that he
supporteth, and oppose all that he opposeth.’ ‘Now truly,’ replied
the Separatists, ‘ye are running, ye and the Syrians, neck and
neck, in the race of infidelity. They follow Muâvia through thick
and thin, and ye swear by Aly black and white.’ ‘Nay,’ replied the
loyalists, ‘Aly never held forth his hand to receive the oath, but on
condition of following the Book and the Sunnat of the Prophet. It
is you that have made us think of this new oath. As for Aly, he is
altogether in the right, and whosoever opposeth him is wandering
in the paths of error.’ So spake Ziâd the son of Nadhr; but they
heeded him not.
[550] Of these, 40,000 were enrolled stipendiaries, 17,000
youths below the ordinary fighting age, and 8,000 slaves. On
finding the people indifferent, Aly first induced certain chiefs of
influence to lead the way, and then made the heads of every clan
and every household furnish the names of their dependants. The
backwardness might have been in some measure due to the
feeling that the fanatics should first be dealt with as a danger
immediately threatening Kûfa. But apart from this, the influence of
Aly was weak and precarious. Never enthusiastic on his side, the
people were becoming more and more indifferent to him. This
was partly owing, no doubt, to the strong feeling against the
pretensions of the Coreish that prevailed at Kûfa.
[551] These outrages were of the most barbarous character.
For example, a traveller refusing to confess Khârejite tenets was
put to death, and his wife, great with child, ripped up with the
sword; three women of the Beni Tay were killed, &c.
[552] Only seven men were killed on Aly’s side. The burden of
the fanatic cry was that Aly had committed a deadly sin in
consenting to refer to human judgment that which appertained
alone to the Divine; and that he must repent of his apostasy. Aly
replied, that being a true believer he would belie himself if he
admitted his apostasy.
Abu Ayûb, as he speared one of the fanatic leaders, cried, ‘I
give thee joy of hell fire!’ Aly affirmed the imprecation, thereby
implying that in his judgment the fanatics had damned themselves
by going out of the pale of Islam and of its covenanted mercies.
[553] This is the meaning of the name: Khârejite, one who
‘goes forth,’ rebelling against the government with the demand for
a theocracy.
[554] The fact is mentioned famâ clamante, and there is no
counter evidence. It was, no doubt, of vital importance to Muâvia
to be rid of Ashtar; but this may of itself have suggested the
report; and in the East, sudden deaths are generally set down to
poisoning, a charge easy to make and difficult to disprove.
Muâvia, we are told, promised the chief, who was collector of the
tithes and revenues at the head of the Red Sea, immunity from
taxation for ever after, if he committed the foul deed. But as these
histories were all compiled more or less under Abbasside
influences, and the evidence is absolutely one-sided, we must be
on our guard against the continual abuse and depreciation of the
Omeyyad dynasty. The portion of the original Tabari, now in the
press may possibly throw light on this and other obscure
passages of our history.
[555] According to some he was slain in battle; but the more
received story is that he was put to death by an insurgent leader,
who was so inveterate against the regicides that he had put his
own son to death for being of that party. Notwithstanding that
Amru had given Mohammed quarter, this chief, we are told, slew
him in cold blood, and having put his body in an ass’s skin,
burned it in the flames. Ayesha was inconsolable at her brother’s
fate, and (although her politics were all against Aly) she was now
led to curse Muâvia and Amru in her daily prayers, and
thenceforward ate no roasted meat nor pleasant food until her
death.
[556] The incident is significant of the attitude of the Moslems
at this period towards Christian captives, which certainly had not
softened since the time of Mahomet. On hearing of Mascala’s
humanity, the commander of the army said, ‘If I had had any
notion that he did this thing out of false pity for the Christians, and
thus cast a slight upon Islam, I would, at the risk even of
alienating all the Beni Bekr (Mascala’s tribe), have beheaded him
on the spot.’ Aly’s remark was: ‘The first act of Mascala (in
offering to take upon himself the ransom of the prisoners) was the
act of a prince; his second (in avoiding his obligations and going
over to Muâvia) the act of a robber and an outlaw.’ So he gave
orders for his house to be razed, and all his slaves set free.
From Damascus, Mascala sent a letter to his brother at Kûfa,
offering him, on the part of Muâvia, a command and great honour
if he would come over to him. The messenger, a Christian of the
Beni Tâghlib, was seized and carried before Aly, who ordered his
hands to be cut off, so that he died. His brother wrote verses in
reply from Kûfa, from which Mascala gathered the concealed
meaning, that the messenger had lost his life. Whereupon the
Beni Tâghlib received blood-money from Muâvia. The verses
have been preserved.
[557] Abu Mûsa, on this occasion, fled from Mecca for his life.
The unfortunate man, ever since the Arbitration, was equally
obnoxious to both sides.
[558] Why to Hasan does not appear, as the hereditary
principle of succession was not as yet thought of, either in Aly’s or
any other line.
[559] The mother, for example, apostrophising the assassin,
speaks of her infants, with singular beauty and pathos, as pearls
whose shell has been rudely torn asunder:

Ah! who hath seen my two little ones—


Darlings that lay hidden, as it were pearls within the fold
of their shell?

As they were grandchildren of Abbâs, the Caliph’s uncle, the


incident naturally occupies a conspicuous position in Abbasside
tradition. Aly cursed Bosor, praying that he might lose his intellect,
and in answer to the prayer (so it is
said) he became a hopeless, drivelling Ackîl, Aly’s brother,
lunatic. deserts.
[560] The defection of Ackîl is not mentioned in the Persian
Tabari. But the circumstance is not one of a kind likely to have
been invented, or (as being opposed to the credit of the Prophet’s
family) perpetuated by tradition under Abbasside influence, if it
had not been founded on fact. On the occasion, Aly gave vent to
his grief in these lines, illustrating the proverb of Solomon, ‘A
brother is born for adversity’:

He is not a brother who quitteth thee in the dark and


louring day;
But rather he that abideth with thee then,
Rejoicing in thy success, and weeping in thy misfortune.

Some traditions make the retirement of Abdallah from


Bussorah to have occurred after Aly’s death. But the fact, as
stated above, is not likely to have been fabricated. Besides, the
narrative is given in great detail and consistency. Abdallah
received the summons of Aly to render an account of his
government, with wrath and scorn, and retired from Bussorah,
carrying his great riches with him. He was pursued by the citizens
of Bussorah; but after some fighting, in which the rival tribes took
part, he managed to get off to Mecca without further molestation.
[561] The assassin thought at first that he had accomplished
his object; but, when taken before Amru, and seeing how the
people made their obeisance to him, he discovered his mistake.
‘Tyrant!’ he exclaimed, ‘it was for thee the blow was intended.’
‘Thou intendedst me,’ replied Amru, with characteristic brevity;
‘but the Lord intended thee!’ and the culprit was led away to
execution. Like many of Amru’s sayings, the words became a
proverb.
[562] Muâvia was stabbed in the groin. Some say that the
culprit was put to death. Others say, that one hand and the
opposite foot (the punishment of a robber according to the Corân)
were cut off, and that he was sent to Bussorah. There having
begotten a son, Ziâd put him to death, saying, ‘Thou hast
begotten a son thyself, and hast made the Caliph impotent; thou
shalt die.’ Muâvia said, that having already Yezîd for his heir, he
did not care for further offspring. I give the story as I find it.
[563] In modern times, some spiritual loss in the future state is
popularly attributed to the burning of a criminal’s body. Here,
apparently, it was intended to be emblematical of the fire of hell to
which Hasan consigned the murderer. In the case of Abu Bekr’s
son (p. 403), the additional indignity was added of the body being
packed up in an ass’s skin.
The offer to assassinate Muâvia is hardly consistent with the
expectation which Ibn Muljam must have had that he had already
perished at the hand of his brother conspirator. But I give the
words as I find them.
[564] The popular tradition is that he was buried at Najaf, near
to Kûfa, and on the shore of the ‘Sea’ of that name, where his
supposed tomb is the object of popular veneration at the present
day. Others assert (but on no sufficient ground) that Hasan had
the body removed to Medîna. There is, in fact, no tradition of any
authority on the subject. The uncertainty is significant. Aly never
had any hold on the affections of the people. His grave must have
been neglected, and even lost sight of, in the troubles succeeding
his death. The oblivion as to his burial-place is in strange contrast
with the almost Divine honours paid to him by so many sects in
later days.
[565] One of the sons died in infancy. The daughters were
Zeinab and Omm Kolthûm; but he had, by other mothers, two
other daughters whom he called by the same names, i.e. Zeinab
the less, and Omm Kolthûm the less.
[566] The mother of this little girl belonged to the Beni Kilâb.
The child lisped, pronouncing l like sh, and so was unable to say
Kilâb; so when asked to what tribe she belonged, she would
imitate the bark of a dog (kilâb or kalb meaning ‘a dog’), to the
great delight of Aly and his courtiers.
[567] Such was the popular belief even at the Alyite court of Al
Mâmun. See The Apology of Al Kindy, which faithfully represents
the sentiments current at that day among the courtiers of
Baghdad, p. 25.
[568] It might be thought that the teaching of Ibn Sauda in
Egypt was the germ of the Divine Imâmate and Second Coming.
But the traditions regarding that teaching are altogether vague
and uncertain. Whatever it was, it certainly took no root; nor do
we hear of it again for many years after, and then first away in the
far East.
[569] His vagrant passions gained for him the unenviable
nickname of The Divorcer, for it was only by continual divorces
that he could harmonise his craving for new nuptials with the
requirements of the Divine law, which limited his lawful wives to
four. He is said to have exercised the power of divorce, as a
matter of simple caprice, seventy (according to others ninety)
times. The leading men complained to Aly that his son was
continually marrying their daughters, and continually divorcing
them. Aly replied that the remedy lay in their own hands; they
should refuse to give him their daughters to wife. These divorced
wives were irrespective of his concubines or slave-girls, upon the
number and variety of whom there was no limit or check
whatever.
[570] There are some traditions, but untrustworthy, that
Muâvia was now, for the first time, proclaimed Caliph at
Jerusalem.
[571] The traditions read as if the army had been previously
kept up in readiness for an attack on Syria; but, as already
shown, a truce at this time existed between Aly and Muâvia of
indefinite duration, according to which hostilities had been laid
aside.
[572] Aly had formerly taken the same route, via Medâin,
when advancing upon Syria. Muâvia was no doubt marching now
from Ricca or Tadmor, across the plain of Upper Mesopotamia,
and the natural way of meeting him would, consequently, be up
the Tigris from Medâin, and then striking off to the west.
[573] The received date of Hasan’s resignation, as in the text,
would make his reign last five and a half months. Others place it
in Rabî II., and some even in Jumâd I., which would make the
reign one or two months longer.
His offer to resign on specified terms was crossed by a
messenger from Muâvia, with a blank sheet signed by Muâvia,
who thus declared his readiness to concede any terms to Hasan if
he abdicated. Thereupon Hasan doubled his claim; but Muâvia
refused, saying that he had already specified his terms, and that
they had been accepted. Darâbgird was the district of which
Hasan was to receive the revenues; but the people of Bussorah
claimed it as their own conquest, and would not give it up.
There is an Abbasside tradition, that one abused Hasan as he
left Kûfa, saying that he had ‘blackened the faces of the
Moslems;’ to which Hasan replied by quoting a dream in which
Mahomet saw the descendants of Omeyya one after another
ascending the steps of his pulpit; whereupon the Prophet was
comforted by the revelation of Suras 97 and 108, regarding the
Fountain of Al Cawthar and the Night of Power, which he is told
are ‘better than a thousand months,’ that is, than the thousand
months during which the Beni Omeyya would rule!
According to another tradition, Amru persuaded Muâvia to
allow Hasan, after his own inaugural speech, to address the
people. Hasan then began to speak of the wheel of fortune, and
of the necessity of stopping the effusion of blood, and was going
on to quote Sura xxi. v. 111, about the world being a trial, and the
Lord helping the Prophet against his adversaries, when Muâvia
made him sit down. He also told Amru he had made a mistake in
proposing that Hasan should be allowed to speak.
[574] Amru, they say, wished Muâvia to fight Cays, but he
answered that it would be only useless bloodshed, and so sent to
Cays a clean sheet signed at foot, as he had done to Hasan,
agreeing to any terms he might propose. Cays, upon receiving
this, bade his soldiers choose whether they ‘preferred to obey an
illegitimate prince, or to go on fighting without any prince at all.’
They preferred to give in, and so retired from the field.
We hear little more of Cays, who died before Muâvia. His
sympathies had been all on the side of Aly; and if the
correspondence that passed between Muâvia and him, when in
Egypt, be genuine, he had little reason to trust Muâvia.
[575] We are even told that the promise given by Muâvia to
Hasan, namely that the sound of the curse should not fall upon
his ears, was not kept.
It is said that Omar II. (a.h. 100) dropped the imprecation; but
he was a poor pietist, whose religious scruples led him to make
many weak concessions, and even to recognise the claims of the
house of Aly. He is of course popular with the Abbassides, who
magnify him as a saint of blessed memory, and have invented
many wonderful stories to his credit. Weil thinks that this may be
one of them; and, at any rate, if suspended during his reign, the
curse was resumed immediately on his decease.
[576] The culprit was a noble Arab lady, the daughter of
Asháth, Chief of the Beni Kinda. The tradition, that she was
bribed by Muâvia, is altogether unlikely, and is no doubt a fiction
of the prevailing character. Hasan was, politically, a harmless
creature; and Muâvia had no motive whatever, after his abdication
and retirement into private life (so far as our materials go), for the
crime. The jealousies of Hasan’s ever-changing harem afford a
far likelier reason.
[577] Amru is, as a matter of course, unpopular with the
Abbasside historians, who make the most of his undoubted
unscrupulousness and levity both in word and action. His last
words are said to have been the humble confession that his life
had been one of rebellion against the Lord, and an earnest prayer
for pardon.
[578] See above, p. 264.
[579] The subject was much canvassed by all parties. Prior to
Islam, the law of marriage and legitimacy was lax; and a loose
woman might, as in the present case, ascribe the paternity of her
child to anyone prepared to admit the same; and (adds Ibn al
Athîr) had Muâvia taken up this ground, there could have been no
valid objection to it. But he did more; he proceeded to take the
evidence of the owner of the slave-girl, as if the case had been
one of Mahometan law, under which the paternity would not have
been admitted, and the case, in fact, would have been held to be
one of whoredom, demanding the punishment of both parties.
Tradition varies as to whether Abu Sofiân himself ever
acknowledged the paternity.
After Muâvia had recognised him as his brother, Ziâd
proposed to go on pilgrimage to Mecca and Medîna. His brother,
Abu Bakra (who, offended at his tergiversation in the adulterous
charge against Moghîra, had never spoken to him since) sent a
message to dissuade him. ‘Thou wilt meet Omm Habîba,’ he said,
‘if thou wilt go on pilgrimage. Now, if she receive thee as her
brother, that will be regarded as a slight upon the memory of the
Prophet; if otherwise, it will be a slight upon thyself.’ So Ziâd
thought better of it, and gave up the design.
Again, Ziâd, wishing to extract an acknowledgment of his birth
from Ayesha, addressed a letter to her in which he subscribed
himself, Ziâd son of Abu Sofiân; to which she replied, without
committing herself, merely thus, ‘To my dear son, Ziâd.’ On the
same ground, Abbasside writers ordinarily name him without a
patronymic, as, Ziâd ibn Abîhi, i.e. ‘Ziâd, son of his father.’ He is
also called after his mother, ‘Ziâd ibn Sommeyya.’
[580] We are told that the same attempt, followed by similar
prodigies, was made by the Caliph Abd al Malik, and also by
Welîd, &c.; in fact, it was an impious act, of a kind which
Abbasside tradition is rather fond of attributing to the Omeyyad
Caliphs. We are told that Mahomet, anticipating the sacrilege, is
said to have threatened hell-fire against any who would venture to
remove the pulpit. This Abu Horeira, who came to Medîna, a.h. 7,
and from whom we have so many traditions, died in a.h. 57 or 59.
[581] Sád (the father of Cays) was the only recusant.
[582] The project, indeed, has been attributed entirely to
Moghîra. The tradition runs thus: Moghîra was afraid that Muâvia
intended to supersede him as Governor of Kûfa by the promotion
of Ziâd to the post; and so, by suggesting the nomination of
Yezîd, and promising to gain over the city of Kûfa to it, he hoped
to secure his continued hold of the city, as being necessary to the
success of the scheme. But the tradition bears strong marks of
coming through an Abbasside medium.
[583] When Merwân, governor of the city, placed the matter
before the men of Medîna, he was at first violently opposed.
Amongst others, Abd al Rahmân, son of Abu Bekr, said, ‘This
thing is naught but a fraud and a deception. In place of the
election, the right to which vesteth in this city, ye will now make
the succession like unto that of the Greeks and Romans—where
one Heraclius succeedeth another Heraclius.’ On this, Muâvia
quoted from the Corân: ‘Say not unto your parents, Fie on you!
neither reproach them’ (Sura xvii. 24); signifying, it may be, that
the very practice of nomination, now opposed, had been
introduced by Abu Bekr himself in appointing Omar.
Abdallah son of Omar is said to have been gained over by the
gift of ten thousand golden pieces.
[584] That the Caliph should be a Coreishite was a condition
generally admitted, excepting by the Khârejites, who opposed the
exclusive pretensions of the Coreish, and, supposing there were
a Caliph (for the stricter would have had only a Council of State),
were indifferent from what stock he came.
[585] Yezîd was the only fit son Muâvia had. He was also born
of a noble mother belonging to the Beni Kalb, who amid the
luxuries of the court pined for the freedom of nomad life. Another
son was decrepid; and a third the son of a slave-girl. By the letter
of the Mahometan law, the son of the bond-woman is equally
legitimate with the son of the free. But amongst the Arabs, the
son of a noble mother took precedence over the lower born; and
so noble birth became naturally one of the elements of fitness in
the choice. And the same we see to the present day, even in such
petty principalities as that of Afghanistan.
The history of Yezîd’s mother has attractions for the Arab
writers. She gave vent to her longing for a return to desert life in
verse, which coming to Muâvia’s ears, he dismissed her with her
son to live in the encampment of her tribe; and there Yezîd
acquired the tastes of the Bedouins, and his love for the chase
and a free life, which he ever after retained. His mother’s verses
were such as these:

A tent fanned by the desert breeze is dearer far to me


than the lofty palace.
I should ride more joyously on the young camel than on
the richly caparisoned steed.
The whistling of the gale across the sandy plain is
sweeter to me than the flourish of royal trumpets.
A crust of bread in the corner of a Bedouin tent has a
better relish to me than that of choicest viands.
The noble Arab of my tribe is more comely in my sight
than the obese and bearded men around me.
O that I were once again in my desert home! I would not
exchange it for the most gorgeous hall.

[586] His courage, however, was more moral than physical.


Both he and Aly, by luxurious living, had become obese (at Kûfa,
Aly went by the nickname of ‘the pot-bellied’), so that in their later
years there was little room, in respect of either, for active bodily
exertion. Still, even as late as the field of Siffîn, we have seen that
Aly fought with his early gallantry; while Muâvia (if the tradition be
true) shrank from a personal encounter with him. Aly was, without
doubt, the braver of the two in physical courage; but Muâvia,
beyond comparison, the abler and bolder ruler.
[587] Some, again, think that Abd al Rahmân died before this.
[588] Muslim was son of Ackîl (brother of Aly) and grandson of
Abu Tâlib, Mahomet’s uncle. All the actors in this melancholy
chapter have become household names in the mouths of
Moslems, especially the Shîyites.
[589] The number varies in different traditions; but no account
gives it at more than forty horse and one hundred foot. Seventy
heads were brought into Kûfa, including probably all the
combatants. There were, no doubt, others, non-combatants,
camp-followers, &c.
[590] Horr (we are to believe), during these parleys, was
converted to the cause of Hosein, and eventually going over to
him, fell fighting by his side. But the whole of the sad tale
becomes at this point so intensified and overlaid with Alyite
fiction, that it is impossible to believe a hundredth part of what is
related, and which the heated imaginations of the Shîyites have
invented.
All the names we meet with here are ranged, either on one
side or on the other (especially in the Shîyite vocabulary), as
models either of piety or apostasy.
[591] Amr son of Sád the hero of Câdesîya, they tell us, had
just been nominated by Obeidallah to the government of Rei in
Persia; and now Obeidallah made it a condition of investiture that
he should bring in Hosein, dead or alive. The scene is painted
theatrically of Amr wavering between duty to the grandson of the
Prophet, and the bribe of office. He yielded to the latter, and for
Mammon sold his soul. But all this must be taken cum grano.
[592] Shamir ibn Dzu al Joshan, the Dhihâbite, is a name
never pronounced by the pious Moslem but with ejaculatory
curse. Obeidallah (so the story goes) was at first inclined to
concede the prayer of Hosein, as urged by Amr, for a safe-
conduct to the Caliph at Damascus, when Shamir stepped
forward, and said that Obeidallah, for the credit of his own name,
must insist on the Pretender’s surrender at discretion. So he
obtained from Obeidallah a letter to Amr, threatening that if he
failed to bring Hosein in, Shamir should take the command, and
also obtain the government of Rei in his stead. The name is
variously pronounced as Shamir or Shimar, Shomar or Shimr.
[593] Aly Akbar, that is Aly the elder, as his brother was called
Aly Asghar, Aly the younger.
[594] There were either six or seven of Abu Tâlib’s
descendants. There was moreover a foster-brother of Hosein,
and also a freedman of his.
[595] The tradition goes on to say that Obeidallah was wroth
with this aged spokesman, called him a drivelling dotard, and said
that if he had not been such, he would have beheaded him upon
the spot. But much is manifestly here invented, and everything
coloured for effect. Some represent the incident as occurring at
the Court at Damascus, and ascribe the speech to Yezîd. Weil
holds falsely so, and I agree with him.
[596] Aly the less is also called Zein al Abidîn, ‘Ornament of
the Pious.’
[597] The name of Hasan is added, not only according to the
Shîyite theory that he was entitled to the Caliphate (though he
resigned it), but because he, too, is regarded as a martyr
poisoned by his wife, as they say, at the instigation of Muâvia, but,
as we have seen, without any sufficient presumption.
The tragedy is yearly represented on the stage as a religious
ceremony, especially by the Shîyites, in the ‘Passion Play,’
throughout which are interwoven, in a supernatural romance, the
lives of the early worthies of Islam, ending with the pathetic tale of
the martyr company of Kerbala; while Abu Bekr, Omar, and
Othmân are execrated as usurpers, and the whole Omeyyad
crew, Obeidallah, Hajjâj, &c., are held up to eternal malediction. A
series of these scenes will be found well represented in The
Miracle Play of Hasan and Hosein, by Sir Lewis Pelly, London,
1879. It will give some idea of the extravagances of Shîya
doctrine, and of the intense hold which the episode of Kerbala
has taken of the Moslem mind.
[598] Weil thinks that if, instead of leaving his battles to be
fought by his generals and remaining himself inactive at Mecca,
he had shown the energy of his early days and attacked the
Caliphs in Syria, he would probably have overthrown them; even
as it was, he was near to doing so.
The dismantling of the Káaba excited the same terror as when
it was rebuilt in the youth of Mahomet, nearly a century before.
(Life, p. 28.) No one durst detach a stone; and when Ibn Zobeir
took the pickaxe in his own hands, many fled the city, fearing the
Divine wrath, and only returned when after three days they saw
no ill effect follow.
In the time of Ibn Zobeir music and singing were common at
Mecca, so that notwithstanding the scandal excited at Medîna,
the practices of Syria were beginning to leaven even the Holy
Cities.
[599] Abu Obeid, the famous warrior who was slain in the
battle of the Bridge.
[600] Life of Mahomet, p. 145.
[601] In this reign the Moslem arms, conducted by the famous
Mûsa, reached to the Atlantic. The Moslem fleets were now
powerful, and made a descent on Sicily, a.h. 82.
Kûfa and Bussorah continued to give such constant
annoyance, that Wâsit (or the ‘Midway garrison’) was founded
half-way between the two cities, to keep them in check. Moslem
mints were now first established, the coinage having a verse of
the Corân for the legend. See Weil’s Caliphs, vol. i. p. 470.
[602] Whatever the cruelties of Hajjâj, it must be confessed
that he had a rebellious race to deal with. And in respect of his
attack on Mecca, from whence Ibn Zobeir so long defied the
empire, it is difficult to see how that attack could have been
avoided; but the necessity is forgotten, and only the sacrilege,
with its testudos and battering rams, remembered. In point of
cruelty, indeed, it would not be easy for inhumanity to outdo the
deeds of some of the Abbasside Caliphs. But Hajjâj was the
servant of the ‘godless’ Omeyyads, and indiscriminate abuse
must be heaped both on him and his Master.
[603] For the unbridled sensuality of the times, the use of wine
and other breaches of the Moslem law, and the demoralisation
that festered in these seats of luxury, I must again refer to H. von
Kremer’s excellent work, Culturgeschichte des Orients unter den
Chalifen, Wien, 1875.
[604] The term Shîya (Sheea) means simply sect or party; but
it has come to signify the partisans of the house of Aly, holding
this Divine claim. Imâm means head or leader, and, according to
the Shîyas, the Imâmate, or Headship of all Islam, vests in the
house of Aly. Hence we are continually hearing of an Imâm, or
successor of this line, as about to appear.
[605] 26th Dzul Hijj, a.h. 132, August 5, a.d. 750.
[606] He was the fifth in descent from the Prophet’s uncle; that
is, he was the grandson of Aly, who was the grandson of Abbâs.
Al Saffâh signifies, ‘The Butcher.’
[607] Thus the use of wine, and the Mutáah or temporary
marriage, could be justified. The latter, by which a conjugal
contract can be entered into for a limited period, is still a tenet of
the Shîyas; but is justly reprobated by the orthodox.
[608] When he found that the scheme must be given up, he
caused his son-in-law—now an inconvenient appendage—to be
removed by poison.
[609] For example, it was only under a Motázilite court that
any such discussion as the Christian ‘Apology of Al Kindy’ could
have been allowed to see the light.
[610] For the ‘Ordinances of Omar,’ see above, p. 212.
[611] Such is the character of the Wahâbee revival which, born
in the present century, spread rapidly and widely over Arabia, and
extended in some of its features (chiefly of a protesting character)
even to India.
[612] Soonnies (Sunnies) are those who acknowledge the
authority of the Sunnat, or precedent established by the practice
of Mahomet, and also admit the validity of the Caliphates of Abu
Bekr, Omar, and Othmân, which the Shîyites deny.
[613] Their bigotry is conspicuous mostly in matters of
purification, a remnant, probably, of their ancient faith. Baths and
mosques are held polluted by the presence of an infidel. It is
curious, also, that the Persians to this day curse the memory of Al
Mâmûn, and accuse him of poisoning his Alyite son-in-law;
curiously enough, using his name as a term of abuse.

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