Algebra-Based College Physics: Part II
The author is a native of Basel, Switzerland, where he also earned a Diploma (in 1985) and Ph.D. (in 1989) in Theoretical Physics. The main research interest of the author is statistical physics applied to a wide variety of problems from physics, chemistry, and biology. After several postdoctoral app...
This book (Part I and Part II) grew from the request of the author’s students to provide a concise, but yet comprehensive text of the key topics and concepts covered in his algebra-based introductory physics course at a comprehensive public university. Any scientific discipline can only be mastered if the key concepts are applied to a wide-range of problems. Physics is no exception, and this book is intended for use along with one of the existing college-physics texts, where a much greater selection of practice problems can be found.
- Electricity
- Electric charges and forces
- Electric Field
- Work and Electrostatic Potential
- Capacitor and Dielectric Material
- Capacitors in Series and Parallel
- DC-circuits
- Electric Circuits
- RC-circuit
- Magnetic Fields
- Magnetic forces and magnetic fields
- Electromagnetic Induction
- Electromagnetic Waves
- Geometric Optics
- Mirrors
- Lenses
- Physical Optics
- Special Relativity
- Quantum Physics
- Photons
- Wave nature of particles
- Atomic Physics
- Nuclear Physics