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College Physics
ISBN: 9780073301747 | 0073301744
Edition: 2ndFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math
Pub. Date: 7/25/2006
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| Electromagnetism | |
| Electric Forces and Fields | |
| Electric charge | |
| Conductors and insulators | |
| Coulomb's law | |
| The electric field | |
| Motion of a point charge in a uniform electric field | |
| Conductors in electrostatic equilibrium | |
| Gauss's law for electric fields | |
| Electric Potential | |
| Electric pot... MORE | |
| Electric potential | |
| The relationship between electric field and potential | |
| Conservation of energy for moving charges | |
| Capacitors | |
| Dielectrics | |
| Energy stored in a capacitor | |
| Electric Current and Circuits | |
| Electric current | |
| Emf and circuits | |
| Microscopic view of current in a metal | |
| Resistance and resistivity | |
| Kirchoff's rules | |
| Series and parallel circuits | |
| Circuit analysis using Kirchoff's rules | |
| Power and energy in circuits | |
| Measuring currents and voltages | |
| RC circuits | |
| Electrical safety | |
| Magnetic Forces and Fields | |
| Magnetic fields | |
| Magnetic force on a point charge | |
| Charged particle moving perpendicular to a uniform magnetic field | |
| Motion of a charged particle in a uniform magnetic field: general | |
| A charged particle in crossed E and B fields | |
| Magnetic force on a current-carrying wire | |
| Torque on a current loop | |
| Magnetic field due to an electric current | |
| Ampère's law | |
| Magnetic materials | |
| Electromagnetic Induction | |
| Motional Emf | |
| Electric generators | |
| Faraday's law | |
| Lenz's law | |
| Back Emf in a motor | |
| Transformers | |
| Eddy currents | |
| Induced electric fields | |
| Mutual and self-inductance | |
| LR circuits | |
| Alternating Current | |
| Sinusoidal currents and voltages;resistors in AC circuits | |
| Electricity in the home | |
| Capacitors in AC circuits | |
| Inductors in AC circuits | |
| RLC series circuit | |
| Resonance in an RLC circuit | |
| Converting AC to DC;filters | |
| Electromagnetic Waves and Optics | |
| Electromagnetic Waves | |
| Accelerating charges produce electromagnetic waves | |
| Maxwell's equations | |
| Antennas | |
| The electromagnetic spectrum | |
| Speed of EM waves in vacuum and in matter | |
| Characteristics of electromagnetic waves in vacuum | |
| Energy transport by EM waves | |
| Polarization | |
| The Doppler effect for EM waves | |
| Reflection and Refraction of Light | |
| Wavefronts, rays, and Huygens' principle | |
| The reflection of light | |
| The refraction of light: Snell's law | |
| Total internal reflection | |
| Brewster's angle | |
| The formation of images through reflection or refraction | |
| Plane mirrors | |
| Spherical mirrors | |
| Thin lenses | |
| Optical Instruments | |
| Lenses in combination | |
| Cameras | |
| The eye | |
| The simple magnifier | |
| Compound microscopes | |
| Telescopes | |
| Aberrations of lenses and mirrors | |
| Interference and Diffraction | |
| Constructive and destructive interference | |
| The Michelson interferometer | |
| Thin films | |
| Young's double slit experiment | |
| Gratings | |
| Diffraction and Huygens' principle | |
| Diffraction by a single slit | |
| Diffraction and the resolution of optical instruments | |
| X-ray diffraction | |
| Holography | |
| Quantum and Particle Physics | |
| Relativity | |
| Postulates of relativity | |
| Simultaneity and ideal observers | |
| Time dilation | |
| Length contraction | |
| Velocities in different reference frames | |
| Relativistic momentum | |
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