Light and Matter
This is an introductory text intended for a one-year introductory course of the type typically taken by biology majors, or for AP Physics B. Algebra and trig are used, and there are optional calculus-based sections.
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| Language: | English |
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Fullerton, California
Benjamin Crowell
2020.
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| Series: | Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
- 0 Introduction and review
- 1 Scaling and estimation
- 2 Velocity and relative motion
- 3 Acceleration and free fall
- 4 Force and motion
- 5 Analysis of forces
- 6 Newton's laws in three dimensions
- 7 Vectors
- 8 Vectors and motion
- 9 Circular motion
- 10 Gravity
- 11 Conservation of energy
- 12 Simplifying the energy zoo
- 13 Work: the transfer of mechanical energy
- 14 Conservation of momentum
- 15 Conservation of angular momentum
- 16 Thermodynamics
- 17 Vibrations
- 18 Resonance
- 19 Free waves
- 20 Bounded waves
- 21 Electricity and circuits
- 22 The nonmechanical universe
- 23 Relativity and magnetism
- 24 Electromagnetism
- 25 Capacitance and inductance
- 26 The atom and E=mc$^2$
- 27 General relativity
- 28 The ray model of light
- 29 Images by reflection
- 30 Images, quantitatively
- 31 Refraction
- 32 Wave optics
- 33 Rules of randomness
- 34 Light as a particle
- 35 Matter as a wave
- 36 The atom