Physics 7A General Physics

by Dina Zhabinskaya

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Introduction to general principles and analytical methods used in physics for students majoring in a biological science. This text addresses energy conservation, work, three-phase model and phase transitions, thermal energy, bond energy, mechanical energies, potential energy and force, Lennard-Jones potential, microscopic description of thermal and bond energy, thermodynamics, and entropy.

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Publisher
UC Davis
Subjects
Physics
Licence
CC BY 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
Who can read
Tweens profiles and older, judged from its title and subjects

Contents

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  1. Front Matter
  2. TitlePage
  3. InfoPage
  4. Table of Contents
  5. Licensing
  6. Agenda
  7. 1: Applying Models to Thermal Phenomena
  8. 1.1: Where are we Headed?
  9. 1.2: Three-Phase Model of Pure Substances
  10. 1.3: Energy-Interaction Model
  11. 1.4: Working With the Energy-Interaction Model
  12. 1.5: Units, Data Tables, and Equations
  13. 1.6: Looking Ahead
  14. 2: Applying Models to Mechanical Phenomena
  15. 2.1: Where Are We Headed?
  16. 2.2: Force
  17. 2.3: Work
  18. 2.4: Mechanical Energy
  19. 2.5: Spring-Mass Oscillator
  20. 2.6: Plotting Energies
  21. 2.7: Force and Potential Energy
  22. 2.8: Looking Back and Ahead
  23. 3: Applying Particle Models to Matter
  24. 3.1: Where we are headed
  25. 3.2: Intro Particle Model of Matter
  26. 3.3: Particle Model of Bond Energy
  27. 3.4: Particle Model of Thermal Energy
  28. 3.5: Looking Back and Ahead
  29. 4: Models of Thermodynamics
  30. 4.1: Where We Are Headed
  31. 4.2: Work and Pressure
  32. 4.3: Ideal Gas Model
  33. 4.4: Intro Model of Thermodynamics
  34. 4.5: Thermodynamics processes
  35. 4.6: Second Law of Thermodynamics
  36. 4.7: Looking Back and Ahead
  37. Back Matter
  38. Index
  39. Glossary
  40. Detailed Licensing