Physics 132: What is an Electron? What is Light?
About This Book
Unit I On-a-Page Principles and Definitions If you have had Dr. Toggerson or Dr. Bourgeois for Physics 131, you are familiar with a distinction made between principles and definitions. The are the fundamental rules of the Universe that describe how things work. Concepts which are , on the other hand, simply describe a quantity. For example, is the definition of momentum for a massive particle; this equation offers no deep foundational insights on how the universe works. We physicists simply note
| Category | science |
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| Subject | Physics, Biology, life sciences, Chemistry |
| Year | 2023 |
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| Chapters | 28 |
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| License | Creative Commons - Attribution - https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ |
Chapters
- 1 Unit I – Introduction and Context for the Unit
- 3 Basics of Particles
- 4 Review of Conservation of Energy
- 5 Some Energy-Related Ideas that Might be New or are Particularly Important
- Now, we have talked about particles. What about waves? Before we start talking a
- 7 Basics of Light
- 8 Review from Chemistry of Application of Conservation of Energy to Photons and
- 9 Matter as a Wave
- 11 All Homework Problems
- Unit II On-a-Page
- 12 Motivating Context for Unit II
- 13 Introduction to Geometric Optics
- 14 Producing Images with Geometric Optics
- We now know what images are: apparent reproductions of objects. In the last chap
- 18 Introduction
- 19 Motivating Context for Unit III
- 20 Basics of Charge
- 21 Vector Review
- 24 Homework Problems
- Unit IV On-a-Page
- 27 Circuit Elements
- 28 Circuits
- 29 Review of Solving Systems of Equations
- Unit V On-a-Page
- 31 Introduction
- 32 Magnet Fields and What They Do
- 33 Sources of Magnetic Fields
- 34 Homework Problems