Enhanced College Physics, Volume 2 (with PhysicsNOW)
by Serway, Raymond A.; Faughn, Jerry S.; Vuille, Chris; Bennett, Charles A.Edition: 7th
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-03-16
Publisher(s): Brooks Cole
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Summary
Planning to take the MCAT exam? You'll appreciate the handy appendix provides detailed conceptual and quantitative explanations of key examination areas, as well as additional MCAT-styled questions and answers for additional practice in ENHANCED COLLEGE PHYSICS. This textbook will reveal to you the basic principles of the Universe. The most fundamental of all natural sciences, physics will reveal to you the basic principles of the Universe. And while physics can seem challenging, its true beauty lies in the sheer simplicity of fundamental physical theories--theories and concepts that can enrich your view of the world around you. ENHANCED COLLEGE PHYSICS, VOLUME II gives you a clear and logical presentation of the basic concepts, and with its integrated media resources, you have the maximum opportunity for success! Each new text includes access to PHYSICSNOW, the ultimate web-based homework and tutorial system! This interactive learning system tailors itself to your needs in the course. It's like having a personal tutor available whenever you need it!
Table of Contents
| Electric Forces and Electric Fields | |
| Properties of Electric Charges | |
| Insulators and Conductors | |
| Coulomb's Law | |
| The Electric Field | |
| Electric Field Lines | |
| Conductors in Electrostatic Equilibrium | |
| The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment | |
| The Van de Graaff Generator | |
| Electric Flux and Gauss's Law | |
| Electrical Energy and Capacitance | |
| Potential Difference and Electric Potential | |
| Electric Potential and Potential Energy Due to Point Charges | |
| Potentials and Charged Conductors | |
| Equipotential Surfaces | |
| Applications | |
| Capacitance | |
| The Parallel-Plate Capacitor | |
| Combinations of Capacitors | |
| Energy Stored in a Charged Capacitor | |
| Capacitors with Dielectrics | |
| Current and Resistance | |
| Electric Current | |
| A Microscopic View: Current and Drift Speed | |
| Current and Voltage Measurements in Circuits | |
| Resistance and Ohm's Law | |
| Resistivity | |
| Temperature Variation of Resistance | |
| Superconductors | |
| Electrical Energy and Power | |
| Electrical Activity in the Heart | |
| Direct Current Circuits | |
| Sources of emf | |
| Resistors in Series | |
| Resistors in Parallel | |
| Kirchhoff's Rules and Complex DC Circuits | |
| RC Circuits | |
| Household Circuits | |
| Electrical Safety | |
| Conduction of Electrical Signals by Neurons | |
| Magnetism | |
| Magnets | |
| Earth's Magnetic Field | |
| Magnetic Fields | |
| Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor | |
| Torque on a Current Loop and Electric Motors | |
| Motion of a Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field | |
| Magnetic Field of a Long, Straight Wire and AmpFre's Law | |
| Magnetic Force Between Two Parallel Conductors | |
| Magnetic Fields of a Current Loop and Solenoids | |
| Magnetic Domains | |
| Induced Voltages and Inductance | |
| Induced emf and Magnetic Flux | |
| Faraday's Law of Induction | |
| Motional emf | |
| Lenz's Law Revisited (The Minus Sign in Faraday's Law) | |
| Generators | |
| Self-Inductance | |
| RL Circuits | |
| Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field | |
| Alternating Current Circuits and Electromagnetic Waves | |
| Resistors in an AC Circuit | |
| Capacitors in an AC Circuit | |
| Inductors in an AC Circuit | |
| The RLC Series Circuit | |
| Power in an AC Circuit | |
| Resonance in a Series RLC Circuit | |
| The Transformer | |
| Maxwell's Predictions | |
| Hertz's Confirmation of Maxwell's Predictions | |
| Production of Electromagnetic Waves by an Antenna | |
| Properties of Electromagnetic Waves | |
| The Spectrum of Electromagnetic Waves | |
| The Doppler Effect for Electromagnetic Waves | |
| Reflection and Refraction of Light | |
| The Nature of Light | |
| Reflection and Refraction | |
| The Law of Refraction | |
| Dispersion and Prisms | |
| The Rainbow | |
| Huygens's Principle | |
| Total Internal Reflection | |
| Mirrors and Lenses | |
| Flat Mirrors | |
| Images Formed by Spherical Mirrors | |
| Convex Mirrors and Sign Conventions | |
| Images Formed by Refraction | |
| Atmospheric Refraction | |
| Thin Lenses | |
| Lens and Mirror Aberrations | |
| Wave Optics | |
| Conditions for Interference | |
| Young's Double-Slit Interference | |
| Change of Phase Due to Reflection | |
| Interference in Thin Films | |
| Using Interference to Read CD's and DVD's | |
| Diffraction | |
| Single-Slit Diffraction | |
| The Diffraction Grating | |
| Polarization of Light Waves | |
| Optical Instruments | |
| The Camera | |
| The Eye | |
| The Simple Magnifier | |
| The Compound Microscope | |
| The Telescope | |
| Resolution of Single-Slit and Circular Apertures | |
| The Michelson Interferometer | |
| Relativity | |
| Introduction | |
| The Principle of Galilean Relativity | |
| The Speed of Light | |
| The Michelson-Morley Experiment | |
| Einstein's Principle of Relativity | |
| Consequences of Special Relativity | |
| Relativistic Momentum | |
| Relativistic Addition of Velocities | |
| Relativistic Energy and the Equivalence of Mass and Energy | |
| Pair Production and Annihilation | |
| General Relativity | |
| Quantum Physics | |
| Blackbody Radiation and Planck's Hypothesis | |
| The Photoelectric Effect and the Particle Theory of Light | |
| X-Rays | |
| Diffraction of X-Rays by Crystals | |
| The Compton Effect | |
| The Dual Nature of Light and Matter | |
| The Wave Function | |
| The Uncertainty Principle | |
| The Scanning Tunneling Microscope | |
| Atomic Physics | |
| Early Models of the Atom | |
| Atomic Spectra | |
| The Bohr Theory of Hydrogen | |
| Modification of the Bohr Theory | |
| De Broglie Waves and the Hydrogen Atom | |
| Quantum Mech | |
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