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Richard Wolfson’s
Essential University Physics is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and interesting real-life applications. At nearly half the length and half the price of other physics texts on the market,
Essential University Physics is a compelling alternative for professors who want to focus on the fundamentals.
Electromagnetism: Electric Charge, Force, and Field; Gauss’s Law; Electric Potential; Electrostatic Energy and Capacitors; Electric Current; Electric Circuits; Magnetism; Electromagnetic Induction; Alternating-Current Circuits; Electromagnetic Waves Optics: The Behavior of Light; Images and Optical Instruments; Interference and Diffraction Modern Physics: Relativity
For all readers interested in calculus-based physic.
Table of Contents
1. Doing Physics
Part 1 Mechanics
2. Motion in a Straight Line
3. Motion in Two and Three Dimensions
4. Force and Motion
5. Using Newton’s Laws
6. Work, Energy, and Power
7. Conservation of Energy
8. Gravity
9. Systems of Particles
10. Rotational Motion
11. Rotational Vectors and Angular Momentum
12. Static Equilibrium
Part 2 Oscillations, Waves, and Fluids
13. Oscillatory Motion
14. Wave Motion
15. Fluid Motion
Part 3 Thermodynamics
16. Temperature and Heat
17. The Thermal Behavior of Matter
18. Heat, Work, and the First Law of Thermodynamics
19. The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Part 4 Electromagnetism
20. Electric Charge, Force, and Field
21. Gauss’s Law
22. Electric Potential
23. Electrostatic Energy and Capacitors
24. Electric Current
25. Electric Circuits
26. Magnetism
27. Electromagnetic Induction
28. Alternating-Current Circuits
29. Electromagnetic Waves
Part 5 Optics
30. The Behavior of Light
31. Images and Optical Instruments
32. Interference and Diffraction
Part 6 Modern Physics
33. Relativity
34. Particles and Waves
35. Quantum Physics
36. Atomic Physics
37. Molecular and Solid-State Physics
38. Nuclear Physics
39. Quarks to Cosmos