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    Calculus-Based Physics II

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    Jeffrey Schnick, Saint Anselm College

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    Publisher: Jeffrey W. Schnick

    Language: English

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    Reviewed by Elena Kuchina, Professor, Thomas Nelson Community College on 3/22/19

    Calculus-Based Physics II by Jeffery W. Schnick briefly covers each topic students would cover in a second semester of calculus-based physics course that does not cover modern physics. The chapters are written in lecture notes style with a couple... read more

    Table of Contents

    • 1 Charge & Coulomb's Law
    • 2 The Electric Field: Description and Effect
    • 3 The Electric Field Due to one or more Point Charges
    • 4 Conductors and the Electric Field
    • 5 Work Done by the Electric Field, and, the Electric Potential
    • 6 The Electric Potential Due to One or More Point Charges
    • 7 Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, and Voltage
    • 8 Capacitors, Dielectrics, and Energy in Capacitors
    • 9 Electric Current, EMF, Ohm's Law
    • 10 Resistors in Series and Parallel; Measuring I & V
    • 11 Resistivity, Power
    • 12 Kirchhoff's Rules, Terminal Voltage
    • 13 RC Circuits
    • 14 Capacitors in Series & Parallel
    • 15 Magnetic Field Intro: Effects
    • 16 Magnetic Field: More Effects
    • 17 Magnetic Field: Causes
    • 18 Faraday's Law, Lenz's Law
    • 19 Induction, Transformers, and Generators
    • 20 Faraday's Law and Maxwell's Extension to Ampere's Law
    • 21 The Nature of Electromagnetic Waves
    • 22 Huygens's Principle and 2-Slit Interference
    • 23 Single-Slit Diffraction
    • 24 Thin Film Interference
    • 25 Polarization
    • 26 Geometric Optics, Reflection
    • 27 Refraction, Dispersion, Internal Reflection
    • 28 Thin Lenses: Ray Tracing
    • 29 Thin Lenses: Lens Equation, Optical Power
    • 30 The Electric Field Due to a Continuous Distribution of Charge on a Line
    • 31 The Electric Potential due to a Continuous Charge Distribution
    • 32 Calculating the Electric Field from the Electric Potential
    • 33 Gauss's Law
    • 34 Gauss's Law Example
    • 35 Gauss's Law for the Magnetic Field, and, Ampere's Law Revisited
    • 36 The Biot-Savart Law
    • 37 Maxwell's Equations

    About the Book

    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.

    About the Contributors

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    Jeffrey Schnick, PhD is an assistant professor at Saint Anselm College.

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