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Introductory Physics: Building Models to Describe Our World

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Introductory Physics: Building Models to Describe Our World

This is an open-access textbook for calculus-based introductory physics courses. The textbook is specifically intended for a flipped-classroom approach, wherein students complete readings at home and the material is then discussed in class. The textbook thus contains questions and activities to engage readers. This text also includes a curriculum in experimental physics, detailing the scientific method and process, suggesting experiments to perform at home and in the lab.

University PhysicsPhysics
Author
Ryan D. Martin, Emma Neary, Joshua Rinaldo, and Olivia Woodman
Publisher
Queen's University
Source
LibreTexts
License
CC BY-SA
Language
EN
Category
Basic Sciences
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Contents· 241 sections
  1. 01: The Scientific Method and Physics
  2. 1.01: Science and the Scientific Method
  3. 1.02: Theories Hypotheses and Models
  4. 1.03: Fighting Intuition
  5. 1.04: The Scope of Physics
  6. 1.05: Thinking Like a Physicist
  7. 1.06: Summary
  8. 1.07: Thinking about the Material
  9. 1.08: Sample Problems and Solutions
  10. 02: Comparing Model and Experiment
  11. 2.01: Orders of magnitude
  12. 2.02: Units and dimensions
  13. 2.03: Making Measurements
  14. 2.04: Summary
  15. 2.05: Thinking about the material
  16. 2.06: Sample problems and solutions
  17. 03: Describing Motion in One Dimension
  18. 3.01: Motion with Constant Speed
  19. 3.02: Motion with Constant Acceleration
  20. 3.03: Using Calculus to Describe Motion
  21. 3.04: Relative Motion
  22. 3.05: Summary
  23. 3.06: Thinking About the Material
  24. 3.07: Sample Problems and Solutions
  25. 04: Describing Motion in Multiple Dimensions
  26. 4.01: Motion in two Dimensions
  27. 4.02: Motion in three dimensions
  28. 4.03: Accelerated motion when the velocity vector changes direction
  29. 4.04: Circular motion
  30. 4.05: Summary
  31. 4.06: Thinking about the material .
  32. 4.07: Sample problems and solutions
  33. 05: Newtons Laws
  34. 5.01: Newtons Three Laws
  35. 5.02: Force
  36. 5.03: Mass and inertia
  37. 5.04: Exploring Forces with PhET
  38. 5.05: Applying Newtons Laws
  39. 5.06: The acceleration due to gravity
  40. 5.07: Non-inertial frames of reference and inertial forces
  41. 5.08: Summary
  42. 5.09: Thinking about the Material
  43. 5.10: Sample problems and solutions
  44. 06: Applying Newtons Laws
  45. 6.01: Statics
  46. 6.02: Linear motion
  47. 6.03: Uniform circular motion
  48. 6.04: Non-uniform circular motion
  49. 6.05: Summary
  50. 6.06: Thinking about the material
  51. 6.07: Problems and Solutions
  52. 07: Work and energy
  53. 7.01: Work
  54. 7.02: Kinetic energy and the work energy theorem
  55. 7.03: Power
  56. 7.04: Summary
  57. 7.05: Thinking about the material
  58. 7.06: Sample Problems and Solutions
  59. 08: Potential Energy and Conservation of Energy
  60. 8.01: Conservative Forces
  61. 8.02: Potential Energy
  62. 8.03: Mechanical Energy and Conservation of Energy
  63. 8.04: Energy diagrams and equilibria
  64. 8.05: The Lagrangian Formulation of Classical Physics
  65. 8.06: Summary
  66. 8.07: Thinking about the material
  67. 8.08: Sample problems and solutions
  68. 09: Gravity
  69. 9.01: Keplers Laws
  70. 9.02: Newtons Universal Theory of Gravity
  71. 9.03: Gravitational potential energy
  72. 9.04: Einsteins Theory of General Relativity
  73. 9.05: Summary
  74. 9.06: Thinking about the material
  75. 9.07: Sample problems and solutions
  76. 10: Linear Momentum and the Center of Mass
  77. 10.01: Momentum
  78. 10.02: Collisions
  79. 10.03: The center of mass
  80. 10.04: Summary
  81. 10.05: Thinking about the material .
  82. 10.06: Sample problems and solutions
  83. 11: Rotational dynamics
  84. 11.01: Rotational kinematic vectors
  85. 11.02: Rotational dynamics for a single particle
  86. 11.03: Torque
  87. 11.04: Rotation about an axis versus rotation about a point .
  88. 11.05: Rotational dynamics for a solid object
  89. 11.06: Moment of Inertia
  90. 11.07: Equilibrium
  91. 11.08: Summary
  92. 11.09: Thinking about the material
  93. 11.10: Sample problems and solutions
  94. 12: Rotational Energy and Momentum
  95. 12.01: Rotational Kinetic Energy of an Object
  96. 12.02: Rolling motion
  97. 12.03: Angular Momentum
  98. 12.04: Summary
  99. 12.05: Thinking about the material
  100. 12.06: Sample problems and solutions
  101. 13: Simple Harmonic Motion
  102. 13.01: The motion of a spring-mass system
  103. 13.02: Vertical spring-mass system
  104. 13.03: Simple Harmonic Motion
  105. 13.04: The Motion of a Pendulum
  106. 13.05: Summary
  107. 13.06: Thinking about the material
  108. 13.07: Sample problems and solutions
  109. 14: Waves
  110. 14.01: Characteristics of a wave
  111. 14.02: Mathematical Description of a Wave
  112. 14.03: Waves on a Rope
  113. 14.04: The speed of a wave
  114. 14.05: Energy Transported by a Wave
  115. 14.06: Superposition of waves and interference
  116. 14.07: Standing waves
  117. 14.08: Summary
  118. 14.09: Thinking about the material
  119. 14.10: Sample problems and solutions
  120. 15: Fluid Mechanics
  121. 15.01: Pressure
  122. 15.02: Buoyancy
  123. 15.03: Hydrodynamics
  124. 15.04: Summary
  125. 15.05: Thinking about the material
  126. 15.06: Sample problems and solutions
  127. 16: Electric Charges and Fields
  128. 16.01: Electric Charge
  129. 16.02: The Coulomb force
  130. 16.03: The Electric Field
  131. 16.04: The Electric Dipole
  132. 16.05: Summary
  133. 16.06: Thinking about the material
  134. 16.07: Sample problems and solutions
  135. 17: Gauss Law
  136. 17.01: Flux of the Electric Field
  137. 17.02: Gauss Law
  138. 17.03: Charges in a Conductor
  139. 17.04: Interpretation of Gauss Law and vector calculus
  140. 17.05: Summary
  141. 17.06: Thinking about the Material
  142. 17.07: Sample problems and solutions
  143. 18: Electric potential
  144. 18.01: Electric Potential Energy
  145. 18.02: Electric potential
  146. 18.03: Calculating electric potential from charge distributions
  147. 18.04: Electric field and potential at the surface of a conductor
  148. 18.05: Capacitors
  149. 18.06: Summary
  150. 18.07: Thinking about the material
  151. 18.08: Sample problems and solutions
  152. 19: Electric Current
  153. 19.01: Current
  154. 19.02: Microscopic model of current
  155. 19.03: Ohms Law
  156. 19.04: Resistors
  157. 19.05: Alternating voltages and currents
  158. 19.06: Electrical safety
  159. 19.07: Summary
  160. 19.08: Thinking about the material
  161. 19.09: Sample problems and solutions
  162. 20: Electric Circuits
  163. 20.01: Batteries and Simple Circuits
  164. 20.02: Kirchhoffs rules
  165. 20.03: Applying Kirchhoffs rule to model circuits
  166. 20.04: Measuring current and voltage
  167. 20.05: Modeling circuits with capacitors
  168. 20.06: Summary
  169. 20.07: Thinking about the Material
  170. 20.08: Sample problems and solutions
  171. 21: The Magnetic Force
  172. 21.01: Magnetic fields
  173. 21.02: The magnetic force on a moving charge
  174. 21.03: The magnetic force on a current-carrying wire .
  175. 21.04: The Torque on a Current-Carrying Loop
  176. 21.05: The Hall Effect
  177. 21.06: Applications
  178. 21.07: Summary
  179. 21.08: Thinking about the Material
  180. 21.09: Sample problems and solutions
  181. 22: Source of Magnetic Field
  182. 22.01: The Biot-Savart Law
  183. 22.02: Force between two current-carrying wires
  184. 22.03: Amperes Law
  185. 22.04: Solenoids and Toroids
  186. 22.05: Summary
  187. 22.06: Thinking about the material
  188. 22.07: Sample problems and solutions
  189. 23: Electromagnetic Induction
  190. 23.01: Faradays Law
  191. 23.02: Induction in a Moving Conductor
  192. 23.03: Back EMF in an electric motor
  193. 23.04: The induced electric field and eddy currents
  194. 23.05: Transformers
  195. 23.06: Maxwells equations and electromagnetic waves
  196. 23.07: Summary
  197. 23.08: Thinking about the material
  198. 23.09: Sample problems and solutions
  199. 24: The Theory of Special Relativity
  200. 24.01: Introduction- The issue with Maxwells equations
  201. 24.02: Einsteins postulates
  202. 24.03: Time Dilation
  203. 24.04: Length Contraction
  204. 24.05: Electric and magnetic fields and Special Relativity
  205. 24.06: Lorentz transformations and space-time
  206. 24.07: Relativistic momentum and energy
  207. 24.08: Closing Remarks
  208. 24.09: Summary
  209. 24.10: Thinking about the material
  210. 24.11: Sample problems and solutions
  211. 25: Vectors
  212. 25.01: Coordinate Systems
  213. 25.02: Vectors
  214. 25.03: Vector algebra
  215. 25.04: Example uses of vectors in physics
  216. 25.05: Summary
  217. 25.06: Thinking about the Material
  218. 25.07: Sample problems and solutions
  219. 26: Calculus
  220. 26.01: Functions of Real Numbers
  221. 26.02: Derivatives
  222. 26.03: Anti-derivatives and integrals
  223. 26.04: Summary
  224. 26.05: Thinking about the Material
  225. 26.06: Sample problems and solutions
  226. 27: Guidelines for lab related activities
  227. 27.01: The process of science and the need for scientific writing
  228. 27.02: Scientific writing
  229. 27.03: Guide for writing a proposal
  230. 27.04: Guide for reviewing a proposal
  231. 27.05: Guide for writing a lab report
  232. 27.06: Sample proposal (Measuring g using a pendulum)
  233. 27.07: Sample proposal review (Measuring g using a pendulum)
  234. 27.08: Sample lab report (Measuring g using a pendulum)
  235. 27.09: Sample lab report review (Measuring g using a pendulum)
  236. 28: The Python Programming Language
  237. 28.01: A quick intro to programming
  238. 28.02: Arrays
  239. 28.03: Plotting
  240. 28.04: The QExpy python package for experimental physics
  241. 28.05: Advanced topics