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University Physics — Year 2

The second university year: rigid bodies and fluids, waves and sound, Maxwell’s equations and electromagnetic waves, wave optics and lasers, diffusion, thermal radiation and thermodynamic potentials, through to the Schrödinger equation and tunnelling.

Bachelor Year 2 (Age 19–20)

  1. 1 Rigid-Body Mechanics 12 solved exercises
  2. 2 Fluid Kinematics 12 solved exercises
  3. 3 Perfect Fluids: Euler and Bernoulli 12 solved exercises
  4. 4 Viscous Flows 12 solved exercises
  5. 5 Momentum and Energy Balances in Flows 12 solved exercises
  6. 6 Waves on Strings and Rods: the d’Alembert Equation 12 solved exercises
  7. 7 Sound Waves in Fluids 12 solved exercises
  8. 8 Dispersion and Wave Packets 12 solved exercises
  9. 9 Electronics: Feedback, Oscillators and Signal Acquisition 12 solved exercises
  10. 10 Charges, Currents and Conduction 12 solved exercises
  11. 11 Maxwell’s Equations 12 solved exercises
  12. 12 Electromagnetic Energy and the Poynting Vector 12 solved exercises
  13. 13 Plane Electromagnetic Waves and Polarization 12 solved exercises
  14. 14 Electromagnetic Waves in Plasmas, Conductors and Dielectrics 12 solved exercises
  15. 15 Reflection and Transmission at Interfaces 12 solved exercises
  16. 16 Guided Waves and Cavities 12 solved exercises
  17. 17 Dipole Radiation and Scattering 12 solved exercises
  18. 18 The Scalar Model of Light 12 solved exercises
  19. 19 Two-Wave Interference 12 solved exercises
  20. 20 The Michelson Interferometer 12 solved exercises
  21. 21 Multiple-Wave Interference and Gratings 12 solved exercises
  22. 22 Fraunhofer Diffraction and Spatial Filtering 12 solved exercises
  23. 23 The Laser: Stimulated Emission and Gaussian Beams 12 solved exercises
  24. 24 Particle Diffusion 12 solved exercises
  25. 25 Heat Conduction 12 solved exercises
  26. 26 Thermal Radiation 12 solved exercises
  27. 27 Thermodynamic Balances and Open Systems 12 solved exercises
  28. 28 Thermodynamic Potentials 12 solved exercises
  29. 29 The Boltzmann Factor 12 solved exercises
  30. 30 The Schrödinger Equation and Wave Functions 12 solved exercises
  31. 31 Potential Wells, Barriers and Tunnelling 12 solved exercises

31 chapters — 31 online so far, and more publishing regularly. The complete book is already available as a free PDF you can read online.