tag:open.umn.edu,2005:/opentextbooks/subjects/physics?page=3Open Textbook Library - Physics Textbooks2019-05-15T20:58:11Zhttps://open.umn.edu/assets/common/favicon/favicon-1594c2156c95ca22b1a0d803d547e5892bb0e351f682be842d64927ecda092e7.icohttps://open.umn.edu/assets/library/otl_logo-f9161d5c999f5852b38260727d49b4e7d7142fc707ec9596a5256a778f957ffc.png7032020-08-25T01:12:04Z2024-01-22T14:52:12ZRelativity Lite: A Pictorial Translation of Einstein’s Theories of Motion and Gravity<img alt="Read more about Relativity Lite: A Pictorial Translation of Einstein’s Theories of Motion and Gravity" title="Relativity Lite: A Pictorial Translation of Einstein’s Theories of Motion and Gravity cover image" class="cover " width="116" height="150" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTQ1OSwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--05e2eaa7ed889e31db713b2bd709e93741999872/thumbnail.jpg" />Relativity Lite is designed for courses like my 100-student General Astronomy sequence. Relativity Lite translates the mathematical equations conventional relativity texts rely upon into pictures that are readily understood and contain within them the mathematical essentials. This new book would provide the comprehensive coverage needed to understand, in sufficient depth, these three linked areas of our reality.8122020-03-05T05:43:36Z2024-01-22T14:52:05ZApplications of Maxwell's Equations<img alt="Read more about Applications of Maxwell's Equations" title="Applications of Maxwell's Equations cover image" class="cover " width="652" height="826" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzczLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--cba0979d0de14871695847f00ef719eee4d2ebf7/0000AppMaxEqu.png" />This book was developed at Simon Fraser University for an upper-level physics course. Along with a careful exposition of electricity and magnetism, it devotes a chapter to ferromagnets. According to the course description, the topics covered were “electromagnetics, magnetostatics, waves, transmission lines, wave guides,antennas, and radiating systems.”7082019-12-01T00:00:00Z2024-01-22T14:52:05ZElectromagnetics Vol 2<img alt="Read more about Electromagnetics Vol 2" title="Electromagnetics Vol 2 cover image" class="cover " width="2452" height="3064" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzExLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--606c92e7382f035751942428f9c9c5a76f1dc25a/Cover.jpg" />Electromagnetics, volume 2 by Steven W. Ellingson is a 216-page peer-reviewed open textbook designed especially for electrical engineering students in the third year of a bachelor of science degree program. It is intended as the primary textbook for the second semester of a two-semester undergraduate engineering electromagnetics sequence. The book addresses magnetic force and the Biot-Savart law; general and lossy media; parallel plate and rectangular waveguides; parallel wire, microstrip, and coaxial transmission lines; AC current flow and skin depth; reflection and transmission at planar boundaries; fields in parallel plate, parallel wire, and microstrip transmission lines; optical fiber; and radiation and antennas. To express your interest in this book or series, please visit http://bit.ly/vtpublishing-updates Additional resources Problem sets and the corresponding solution manuals; Slides of figures used in and created for the book; LaTeX sourcefiles; Errata for Volume 2; Collaborator portal for the Electromagnetics series; Faculty listserv for the Electromagnetics series. An accessible version will be available in January 2020. The Open Electromagnetics Project Led by Steven W. Ellingson at Virginia Tech, the goal of the Open Electromagnetics Project is to create no-cost openly-licensed content for courses in engineering electromagnetics. The project is motivated by two things: lowering learning material costs for students and giving faculty the freedom to adopt, modify, and improve their educational resources. Books in this Series Electromagnetics, Volume 1 https://doi.org/10.21061/electromagnetics-vol-1 Electromagnetics, Volume 2 https://doi.org/10.21061/electromagnetics-vol-27682019-09-07T21:08:05Z2024-01-22T14:52:04ZUniversity Physics I: Classical Mechanics<img alt="Read more about University Physics I: Classical Mechanics" title="University Physics I: Classical Mechanics cover image" class="cover " width="652" height="844" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NzI0LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--c0bcc8394f66b47404b581f593121e76f40e5a67/0000UniPhyOne.png" />This is a “minimalist” textbook for a first semester of university, calculus-based physics, covering classical mechanics (including one chapter on mechanical waves, but excluding fluids), plus a brief introduction to thermodynamics. The presentation owes much to Mazur’s The Principles and Practice of Physics: conservation laws, momentum and energy, are introduced before forces, and one-dimensional setups are thoroughly explored before two-dimensional systems are considered. It contains both problems and worked-out examples.6462018-12-08T23:42:34Z2024-03-07T22:43:05ZBody Physics: Motion to Metabolism<img alt="Read more about Body Physics: Motion to Metabolism" title="Body Physics: Motion to Metabolism cover image" class="cover " width="683" height="1024" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTI2MCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--23b404959219c94b2e29799b82ede9625b84c41c/Body-Physics-683x1024.jpg" />Body Physics sticks to the basic functioning of the human body, from motion to metabolism, as a common theme through which fundamental physics topics are introduced. Related practice, reinforcement and Lab activities are included. See the front matter for more details. Additional supplementary material, activities, and information can be found at: https://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/bpsupmat/6432018-12-02T03:37:16Z2024-01-22T14:52:02ZMechanics and Relativity<img alt="Read more about Mechanics and Relativity" title="Mechanics and Relativity cover image" class="cover " width="300" height="370" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NTgwLCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--02f032bdccc405cdcddf76cefc073f0958c656be/9789463660853.jpg" />In Mechanics and Relativity, the reader is taken on a tour through time and space. Starting from the basic axioms formulated by Newton and Einstein, the theory of motion at both the everyday and the highly relativistic level is developed without the need of prior knowledge. The relevant mathematics is provided in an appendix. The text contains various worked examples and a large number of original problems to help the reader develop an intuition for the physics. Applications covered in the book span a wide range of physical phenomena, including rocket motion, spinning tennis rackets and high-energy particle collisions.5322018-09-07T17:22:08Z2024-01-22T14:52:01ZElectromagnetics Vol 1<img alt="Read more about Electromagnetics Vol 1" title="Electromagnetics Vol 1 cover image" class="cover " width="894" height="1132" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6NDU3LCJwdXIiOiJibG9iX2lkIn19--91e7132b0a0e7b049342f38ef5fcd5ad719369e3/9780997920192.png" />Electromagnetics Volume 1 by Steven W. Ellingson is a 238-page, peer-reviewed open educational resource intended for electrical engineering students in the third year of a bachelor of science degree program. It is intended as a primary textbook for a one-semester first course in undergraduate engineering electromagnetics. The book employs the “transmission lines first” approach in which transmission lines are introduced using a lumped-element equivalent circuit model for a differential length of transmission line, leading to one-dimensional wage equations for voltage and current. Additional ResourcesProblem sets and the corresponding solution manual are also available.4902018-09-07T17:22:05Z2024-01-22T14:52:01ZVariational Principles in Classical Mechanics - Revised Second Edition<img alt="Read more about Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics - Revised Second Edition" title="Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics - Revised Second Edition cover image" class="cover " width="610" height="774" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/rails/active_storage/blobs/redirect/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsiZGF0YSI6MTk4NCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--b83bd0d993868fcd3606c6ab741cb315456811e5/v%E1%BA%A3iehfbhd.JPG" />Two dramatically different philosophical approaches to classical mechanics were proposed during the 17th – 18th centuries. Newton developed his vectorial formulation that uses time-dependent differential equations of motion to relate vector observables like force and rate of change of momentum. Euler, Lagrange, Hamilton, and Jacobi, developed powerful alternative variational formulations based on the assumption that nature follows the principle of least action. These variational formulations now play a pivotal role in science and engineering. This book introduces variational principles and their application to classical mechanics. The relative merits of the intuitive Newtonian vectorial formulation, and the more powerful variational formulations are compared. Applications to a wide variety of topics illustrate the intellectual beauty, remarkable power, and broad scope provided by use of variational principles in physics. This second edition adds discussion of the use of variational principles applied to the following topics: Systems subject to initial boundary conditions The hierarchy of the related formulations based on action, Lagrangian, Hamiltonian, and equations of motion, to systems that involve symmetries Non-conservative systems. Variable-mass systems. The General Theory of Relativity. The first edition of this book can be downloaded at the publisher link.4032018-09-07T17:21:59Z2024-01-22T14:52:16ZCalculus-Based Physics II<img alt="Read more about Calculus-Based Physics II" title="textbook cover placeholder image" class="cover fallback " width="247" height="326" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" />Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students.4022018-09-07T17:21:59Z2024-01-22T14:52:16ZCalculus-Based Physics I<img alt="Read more about Calculus-Based Physics I" title="textbook cover placeholder image" class="cover fallback " width="247" height="326" data-controller="common--cover" data-placeholder="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" src="/assets/common/placeholder-0e0607cbc50663ddb9e8fd188058bcd2630c730ef6ee322801278607b7d5af8e.png" />Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students.
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