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1996 Nobel Prize in Physics

Table of Contents

PART THREE: ELECTROMAGNETISM

16 Electric Forces and Fields

16.1 Electric Charge

16.2 Conductors and Insulators

16.3 Coulombs Law

16.4 The Electric Field

16.5 Motion of a Point Charge in a Uniform Electric Field

16.6 Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium

16.7 Gauss's Law for Electric Fields

17 Electric Potential

17.1 Electric Potential Energy

17.2 Electric Potential

17.3 The Relationship Between Electric Field and Potential

17.4 Conservation of Energy for Moving Charges

17.5 Capacitors

17.6 Dielectrics

17.7 Energy Stored in a Capacitor

18 Electric Current and Circuits

18.1 Electric Current

18.2 Emf and Circuits

18.3 Microscopic View of Murrent in a Metal:The Free-Electron Model

18.4 Resistance and Sesistivity

18.5 Kirchoffs Rules

18.6 Series and Parallel Circuits

18.7 Circuit Analysis Using Kirchoffs rRles

18.8 Power and Energy in Circuits

18.9 Measuring Currents and Voltages

18.10 RC Circuits

18.11 Electrical Safety

19 Magnetic Forces and Fields

19.1 Magnetic Fields

19.2 Magnetic Force on a Point charge

19.3 Charged Particle Moving Perpendicular to a Uniform Magnetic Field

19.4 Motion of a Charged Particle in a Uniform Magnetic Field: General

19.5 A Charged Particle in Crossed E and B Fields

19.6 Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire

19.7 Torque on a Current Loop

19.8 Magnetic Field Due to an Electric Current

19.9 Ampères Law

19.10 Magnetic Materials

20 Electromagnetic Induction

20.1 Motional Emf

20.2 Electric Generators

20.3 Faraday's Law

20.4 Lenz's Law

20.5 Back Emf in a Motor

20.6 Transformers

20.7 Eddy Currents

20.8 Induced Electric Fields

20.9 Mutual and Self-Inductance

20.10 LR Circuits

21 Alternating Current

21.1 Sinusoidal Currents and Voltages; Resistors in AC Circuits

21.2 Electricity in the Home

21.3 Capacitors in AC Circuits

21.4 Inductors in AC Circuits

21.5 RLC Series Circuit

21.6 Resonance in an RLC Circuit

21.7 Converting AC to DC; Filters

PART FOUR: ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES AND OPTICS

22 Electromagnetic Waves

22.1 Accelerating Charges Produce Electromagnetic Waves

22.2 Maxwells Equations

22.3 Antennas

22.4 The Electromagnetic Spectrum

22.5 Speed of EM Waves in Vacuum and in Matter

22.6 Characteristics of Electromagnetic Waves in Vacuum

22.7 Energy Transport by EM Waves

22.8 Polarization

22.9 The Doppler Effect for EM Waves

23 Reflection and Refraction of Light

23.1 Wavefronts, Rays, and Huygens Principle

23.2 The Reflection of Light

23.3 The Refraction of Light: Snells Law

23.4 Total Internal Reflection

23.5 Polarization By Reflection

23.6 The Formation of Images Through Reflection or Refraction

23.7 Plane Mirrors

23.8 Spherical mMrrors

23.9 Thin Lenses

24 Optical Instruments

24.1 Lenses in Combination

24.2 Cameras

24.3 The Eye

24.4 The Simple Magnifier

24.5 Compound Microscopes

24.6 Telescopes

24.7 Aberrations of Lenses and Mirrors

25 Interference and Diffraction

25.1 Constructive and Destructive Interference

25.2 The Michelson Interferometer

25.3 Thin Films

25.4 Youngs Double-Slit Experiment

25.5 Gratings

25.6 Diffraction and Huygens Principle

25.7 Diffraction by a Single Slit

25.8 Diffraction and the Resolution of Optical Instruments

25.9 X-Ray Diffraction

25.10 Holography

PART FIVE: QUANTUM AND PARTICLE PHYSICS

26 Relativity

26.1 Postulates of Relativity

26.2 Simultaneity and Ideal Observers

26.3 Time Dilation

26.4 Length Contraction

26.5 Velocities in Different Reference Frames

26.6 Relativistic Momentum

26.7 Mass and Energy

26.8 Relativistic Kinetic Energy

27 Early Quantum Physics and the Photon

27.1 Quantization

27.2 Blackbody Radiation

27.3 The Photoelectric eEfect

27.4 X-Ray Production

27.5 Compton Ccattering

27.6 Spectroscopy and Early Models of the Atom

27.7 The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom; Atomic Energy Levels

27.8 Pair Annihilation and Pair Production

28 Quantum Physics

28.1 The Wave-Particle Duality

28.2 Matter Waves

28.3 Electron Microscopes

28.4 The Uncertainty Principle

28.5 Wave Functions for a Confined Particle

28.6 The Hydrogen Atom: Wave Functions and Quantum Numbers

28.7 The Exclusion Principle; Electron Configurations for Atoms Other Than Hydrogen

28.8 Electron Energy Levels in a Solid

28.9 Lasers

28.10 Tunneling

29 Nuclear Physics

29.1 Nuclear Structure

29.2 Binding Energy

29.3 Radioactivity

29.4 Radioactive Decay Rates and Half-Lives

29.5 Biological Effects of Radiation

29.6 Induced Nuclear Reactions

29.7 Fission

29.8 Fusion

30 Particle Physics

30.1 Fundamental Particles

30.2 Fundamental Interactions

30.3 Unification

30.4 Particle Accelerators

30.5 Twenty-First-Century Particle Physics

Appendix A: Mathematics Review

Appendix B: Table of Selected Nuclides

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9780073327525
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Giambattista, Alan
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Richardson, Betty
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Richardson, Robert C.
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Richardson, Robert
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Physics
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