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University Physics Volume 3

Calculus-based optics and modern physics: geometric optics, interference and diffraction, relativity, photons and matter waves, quantum mechanics, and atomic, condensed-matter, nuclear, and particle physics. The problems practice quantitative reasoning where classical intuition stops working.

University Physics Volume 3

667 exercises74 sections

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The Nature of Light

48

1.1 The Propagation of Light7

1.2 The Law of Reflection1

1.3 Refraction6

1.4 Total Internal Reflection6

1.5 Dispersion5

1.6 Huygens’s Principle2

1.7 Polarization21

Geometric Optics and Image Formation

67

2.1 Images Formed by Plane Mirrors4

2.2 Spherical Mirrors8

2.3 Images Formed by Refraction4

2.4 Thin Lenses9

2.7 The Simple Magnifier6

2.8 Microscopes and Telescopes24

Interference

51

3.1 Young's Double-Slit Interference2

3.2 Mathematics of Interference11

3.3 Multiple-Slit Interference2

3.4 Interference in Thin Films10

3.5 The Michelson Interferometer26

Diffraction

67

4.1 Single-Slit Diffraction11

4.2 Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction4

4.3 Double-Slit Diffraction4

4.4 Diffraction Gratings7

4.5 Circular Apertures and Resolution12

4.6 X-Ray Diffraction5

4.7 Holography24

Relativity

67

5.1 Invariance of Physical Laws3

5.3 Time Dilation8

5.4 Length Contraction6

5.5 The Lorentz Transformation6

5.6 Relativistic Velocity Transformation4

5.7 Doppler Effect for Light3

5.8 Relativistic Momentum5

5.9 Relativistic Energy32

Photons and Matter Waves

97

6.1 Blackbody Radiation12

6.2 Photoelectric Effect14

6.3 The Compton Effect11

6.4 Bohr’s Model of the Hydrogen Atom18

6.5 De Broglie’s Matter Waves12

6.6 Wave-Particle Duality30

Quantum Mechanics

55

7.1 Wave Functions9

7.2 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle6

7.3 The Schrӧdinger Equation7

7.4 The Quantum Particle in a Box7

7.5 The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator10

7.6 The Quantum Tunneling of Particles through Potential Barriers16

Atomic Structure

54

8.1 The Hydrogen Atom11

8.2 Orbital Magnetic Dipole Moment of the Electron6

8.3 Electron Spin7

8.4 The Exclusion Principle and the Periodic Table6

8.5 Atomic Spectra and X-rays12

Condensed Matter Physics

57

9.1 Types of Molecular Bonds6

9.2 Molecular Spectra5

9.3 Bonding in Crystalline Solids8

9.4 Free Electron Model of Metals7

9.5 Band Theory of Solids5

9.6 Semiconductors and Doping5

9.7 Semiconductor Devices6

9.8 Superconductivity15

Nuclear Physics

52

10.1 Properties of Nuclei5

10.2 Nuclear Binding Energy6

10.3 Radioactive Decay8

10.4 Nuclear Reactions8

10.6 Nuclear Fusion6

10.7 Medical Applications and Biological Effects of Nuclear Radiation14

Particle Physics and Cosmology

52

11.1 Introduction to Particle Physics4

11.2 Particle Conservation Laws7

11.4 Particle Accelerators and Detectors9

11.5 The Standard Model6

11.6 The Big Bang8

11.7 Evolution of the Early Universe12

Adapted from University Physics Volume 3 © 2016 Rice University. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. Source: University Physics Volume 3. Imported at revision db44eb9.