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FUNDAMENTALS OF PHYSICS
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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
15 Oscillations 34 Images
16 Waves—I 35 Interference
17 Waves—II 36 Diffraction
v
C O N T E N T S
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
vi
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
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
REVIEW & SUMMARY 434 QUESTIONS 434 PROBLEMS 436 17-7 THE DOPPLER EFFECT 498
The Doppler Effect 499
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
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
24-3 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
xii CONTENTS
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
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
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
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.
xvii
xviii PREFACE
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.
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
PREFACE xix
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.
xx PREFACE
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.
• 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.
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.
STUDENT SUPPLEMENTS
Student Solutions Manual (ISBN 9781119455127) by Sen-Ben Liao, Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory. This manual provides students with complete worked-out solutions to 15 per-
cent of the problems found at the end of each chapter within the text. The Student Solutions Manual
for the 10th edition is written using an innovative approach called TEAL, which stands for Think,
Express, Analyze, and Learn. This learning strategy was originally developed at the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology and has proven to be an effective learning tool for students. These problems
with TEAL solutions are indicated with an SSM icon in the text.
A great many people have contributed to this book. Sen-Ben Liao of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, James Whiten-
ton of Southern Polytechnic State University, and Jerry Shi of Pasadena City College performed the Herculean task of working
out solutions for every one of the homework problems in the book. At John Wiley publishers, the book received support from
Jessica Fiorillo, Jennifer Yee, Geraldine Osnato, and Mallory Fryc, the editors who oversaw the entire project from start to fin-
ish. We thank Elizabeth Swain, the production editor, for pulling all the pieces together during the complex production process.
We also thank Jon Boylan for the art and cover design; Helen Walden for her copyediting; and Donna Mulder for her proof-
reading. Mary Ann Price was inspired in the search for unusual and interesting photographs. Both the publisher John Wiley &
Sons, Inc. and Jearl Walker would like to thank the following for comments and ideas about the new edition:
Sidi Benzahra, California State Polytechnic University, Amjad Nazzal, Wilkes University
Pomona Allen Nock, Northeast Mississippi Community College
Lev Gasparov, University of North Florida Andrew Resnick, Cleveland State University
Brian Geislinger, Gadsden State Community College Anderson Sunda-Meya, Xavier University of Louisiana
Corey Gerving, United States Military Academy Keith Wanser, California State University Fullerton
Kevin Hope, University of Montevallo David Westmark, University of South Alabama
Michael Kalb, The College of New Jersey Edward Whittaker, Stevens Institute of Technology
Finally, our external reviewers have been outstanding and we acknowledge here our debt to each member of that team.
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xxiv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Leonard M. Kahn, University of Rhode Island Eugene Mosca, United States Naval Academy
Richard Kass, The Ohio State University Carl E. Mungan, United States Naval Academy
M.R. Khoshbin-e-Khoshnazar, Research Institution for Eric R. Murray, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of
Curriculum Development and Educational Innovations Physics
(Tehran) James Napolitano, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Sudipa Kirtley, Rose-Hulman Institute Blaine Norum, University of Virginia
Leonard Kleinman, University of Texas at Austin Michael O’Shea, Kansas State University
Craig Kletzing, University of Iowa Don N. Page, University of Alberta
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Priscilla Laws, Dickinson College Elie Riachi, Fort Scott Community College
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Vern Lindberg, Rochester Institute of Technology Andrew G. Rinzler, University of Florida
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Andreas Mandelis, University of Toronto Carol Strong, University of Alabama at Huntsville
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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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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: