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