College Physics / Alan Giambattista, Betty McCarthy Richardson, Robert C. Richardson.

By:

Giambattista, Alan

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c.2007.Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 v. (various pagings) : col. ill. ; 29 cmISBN:

0072564369
9780072564365

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Physics

DDC classification:

530 GIA

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Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	530 GIA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100322040

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Includes index.

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Part Three Electromagnetism
Chapter 16 Electric Forces and Fields
16.1 Electric charge
16.2 Conductors and insulators
16.3 Coulomb's 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 18 Electric Current and Circuits
18.1 Electric current
18.2 Emf and circuits
18.3 Microscopic view of current in a metal
18.4 Resistance and resistivity
18.5 Kirchoff's rules
18.6 Series and parallel circuits
18.7 Circuit analysis using Kirchoff's rules
18.8 Power and energy in circuits
18.9 Measuring currents and voltages
18.10 RC circuits
18.11 Electrical safety
Chapter 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 Ampère's law
19.10 Magnetic materials
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 22 Electromagnetic Waves
22.1 Accelerating charges produce electromagnetic waves
22.2 Maxwell's 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
Chapter 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: Snell's law
23.4 Total internal reflection
23.5 Brewster's angle
23.6 The formation of images through reflection or refraction
23.7 Plane mirrors
23.8 Spherical mirrors
23.9 Thin lenses
Chapter 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
Chapter 25 Interference and Diffraction
25.1 Constructive and destructive interference
25.2 The Michelson interferometer
25.3 Thin films
25.4 Young's 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
Chapter 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