Conceptual Physics

by Benjamin Crowell

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For a semester-length course, all seven chapters can be covered. For a shorter course, the book is designed so that chapters 1, 2, and 5 are the only ones that are required for continuity; any of the others can be included or omitted at the instructor’s discretion, with the only constraint being that chapter 6 requires chapter 4.

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Publisher
Fullerton College
Subjects
Physics, Conceptual Physics
Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0, as LibreTexts states it
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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. 1: Introduction and Review
  7. 1.1: Introduction and Review
  8. 1.2: What is Physics
  9. 1.3: How to Learn Physics
  10. 1.4: Self Evaluation
  11. 1.5: Basics of the Metric System
  12. 1.5.1: The Newton, the Metric Unit of Force
  13. 1.5.2: Less Common Metric Prefixes
  14. 1.6: Scientific Notation
  15. 1.7: Conversions
  16. 1.8: Significant Figures
  17. 1.9: Summary
  18. 1.10: Problems
  19. 2: Conservation of Mass
  20. 2.1: Mass
  21. 2.2: Equivalence of Gravitational and Inertial Mass
  22. 2.3: 1.3 Galilean Relativity
  23. 2.4: A Preview of Some Modern Physics
  24. 2.5: Footnotes
  25. 2.6: Problems
  26. 3: Conservation of Energy
  27. 3.1: Energy
  28. 3.2: Numerical Techniques
  29. 3.3: Gravitational Phenomena
  30. 3.4: Atomic Phenomena
  31. 3.5: Oscillations
  32. 3.6: Footnotes
  33. 3.7: Problems
  34. 4: Conservation of Momentum
  35. Front Matter
  36. TitlePage
  37. InfoPage
  38. 4.1: Momentum In One Dimension
  39. 4.2: Force In One Dimension
  40. 4.3: Resonance
  41. 4.4: Motion In Three Dimensions
  42. 4.5: Footnotes
  43. 4.E: Problems
  44. Back Matter
  45. Index
  46. 5: Conservation of Angular Momentum
  47. 5.1: Angular Momentum In Two Dimensions
  48. 5.2: Rigid-Body Rotation
  49. 5.3: Angular Momentum In Three Dimensions
  50. 5.4: Footnotes
  51. 5.E: Conservation of Angular Momentum (Exercises)
  52. 6: Thermodynamics
  53. 6.1: Pressure and Temperature
  54. 6.2: Microscopic Description of An Ideal Gas
  55. 6.3: Entropy As a Macroscopic Quantity
  56. 6.4: Entropy As a Microscopic Quantity
  57. 6.5: More About Heat Engines
  58. 6.6: Footnotes
  59. 6.E: Thermodynamics (Exercises)
  60. 7: Waves
  61. 7.1: Free Waves
  62. 7.2: Bounded Waves
  63. 7.3: Footnotes
  64. 7.4: Problems
  65. 8: Relativity
  66. 8.1: Time Is Not Absolute
  67. 8.2: Distortion of Space and Time
  68. 8.3: Dynamics
  69. 8.4: General Relativity (optional)
  70. 8.5: Footnotes
  71. 8.E: Relativity (Exercises)
  72. 9: Atoms and Electromagnetism
  73. 9.1: The Electric Glue
  74. 9.2: The Nucleus
  75. 9.3: Footnotes
  76. 9.4: Problems
  77. 10: Circuits
  78. 10.1: Current and Voltage
  79. 10.2: Parallel and Series Circuits
  80. 10.E: Circuits (Exercises)
  81. 11: Fields
  82. 11.1: Fields of Force
  83. 11.2: Voltage Related To Field
  84. 11.3: Fields by Superposition
  85. 11.4: Energy In Fields
  86. 11.5: LRC Circuits
  87. 11.6: Fields by Gauss' Law
  88. 11.7: Gauss' Law In Differential Form
  89. 11.8: Footnotes
  90. 11.E: Fields (Exercises)
  91. 12: Electromagnetism
  92. 12.1: More About the Magnetic Field
  93. 12.2: Magnetic Fields by Superposition
  94. 12.3: Magnetic Fields by Ampère's Law
  95. 12.4: Ampère's Law In Differential Form (Optional)
  96. 12.5: Induced Electric Fields
  97. 12.6: Maxwell's Equations
  98. 12.7: Electromagnetic Properties of Materials
  99. 12.8: Footnotes
  100. 12.E: Electromagnetism (Exercises)
  101. 13: Optics
  102. 13.1: The Ray Model of Light
  103. 13.2: Images by Reflection
  104. 13.3: Images, Quantitatively
  105. 13.4: Refraction
  106. 13.5: Wave Optics
  107. 13.6: Footnotes
  108. 13.E: Optics (Exercises)
  109. 14: Quantum Physics
  110. 14.1: Rules of Randomness
  111. 14.2: Light As a Particle
  112. 14.3: Matter As a Wave
  113. 14.4: The Atom
  114. 14.5: Footnotes
  115. 14.6: Problems
  116. 15: Appendix - Scaling and Order-of-Magnitude Estimates
  117. 15.1: Introduction
  118. 15.2: Scaling of Area and Volume
  119. 15.3: Scaling Applied to Biology
  120. 15.4: Order-of-Magnitude Estimates
  121. 15.5: Summary
  122. 15.6: Problems
  123. 15.7: New Page
  124. Back Matter
  125. Index
  126. Index
  127. Glossary
  128. Detailed Licensing