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Conceptual Physics
For a semester-length course, all seven chapters can be covered. For a shorter course, the book is designed so that chapters 1, 2, and 5 are the only ones that are required for continuity; any of the others can be included or omitted at the instructor’s discretion, with the only constraint being that chapter 6 requires chapter 4.
- Author
- Benjamin Crowell
- Publisher
- Fullerton College
- Source
- LibreTexts
- License
- CC BY-SA
- Language
- EN
- Category
- Basic Sciences
Contents· 113 sections
- 01: Introduction and Review
- 1.01: Introduction and Review
- 1.02: What is Physics
- 1.03: How to Learn Physics
- 1.04: Self Evaluation
- 1.05: Basics of the Metric System
- 1.5.01: The Newton the Metric Unit of Force
- 1.5.02: Less Common Metric Prefixes
- 1.06: Scientific Notation
- 1.07: Conversions
- 1.08: Significant Figures
- 1.09: Summary
- 1.10: Problems
- 02: Conservation of Mass
- 2.01: Mass
- 2.02: Equivalence of Gravitational and Inertial Mass
- 2.03: 1.3 Galilean Relativity
- 2.04: A Preview of Some Modern Physics
- 2.05: Footnotes
- 2.06: Problems
- 03: Conservation of Energy
- 3.01: Energy
- 3.02: Numerical Techniques
- 3.03: Gravitational Phenomena
- 3.04: Atomic Phenomena
- 3.05: Oscillations
- 3.06: Footnotes
- 3.07: Problems
- 04: Conservation of Momentum
- 4.01: Momentum In One Dimension
- 4.02: Force In One Dimension
- 4.03: Resonance
- 4.04: Motion In Three Dimensions
- 4.05: Footnotes
- 4.E: Problems
- 05: Conservation of Angular Momentum
- 5.01: Angular Momentum In Two Dimensions
- 5.02: Rigid-Body Rotation
- 5.03: Angular Momentum In Three Dimensions
- 5.04: Footnotes
- 5.E: Conservation of Angular Momentum (Exercises)
- 06: Thermodynamics
- 6.01: Pressure and Temperature
- 6.02: Microscopic Description of An Ideal Gas
- 6.03: Entropy As a Macroscopic Quantity
- 6.04: Entropy As a Microscopic Quantity
- 6.05: More About Heat Engines
- 6.06: Footnotes
- 6.E: Thermodynamics (Exercises)
- 07: Waves
- 7.01: Free Waves
- 7.02: Bounded Waves
- 7.03: Footnotes
- 7.04: Problems
- 08: Relativity
- 8.01: Time Is Not Absolute
- 8.02: Distortion of Space and Time
- 8.03: Dynamics
- 8.04: General Relativity (optional)
- 8.05: Footnotes
- 8.E: Relativity (Exercises)
- 09: Atoms and Electromagnetism
- 9.01: The Electric Glue
- 9.02: The Nucleus
- 9.03: Footnotes
- 9.04: Problems
- 10: Circuits
- 10.01: Current and Voltage
- 10.02: Parallel and Series Circuits
- 10.E: Circuits (Exercises)
- 11: Fields
- 11.01: Fields of Force
- 11.02: Voltage Related To Field
- 11.03: Fields by Superposition
- 11.04: Energy In Fields
- 11.05: LRC Circuits
- 11.06: Fields by Gauss' Law
- 11.07: Gauss' Law In Differential Form
- 11.08: Footnotes
- 11.E: Fields (Exercises)
- 12: Electromagnetism
- 12.01: More About the Magnetic Field
- 12.02: Magnetic Fields by Superposition
- 12.03: Magnetic Fields by Ampere's Law
- 12.04: Ampere's Law In Differential Form (Optional)
- 12.05: Induced Electric Fields
- 12.06: Maxwell's Equations
- 12.07: Electromagnetic Properties of Materials
- 12.08: Footnotes
- 12.E: Electromagnetism (Exercises)
- 13: Optics
- 13.01: The Ray Model of Light
- 13.02: Images by Reflection
- 13.03: Images Quantitatively
- 13.04: Refraction
- 13.05: Wave Optics
- 13.06: Footnotes
- 13.E: Optics (Exercises)
- 14: Quantum Physics
- 14.01: Rules of Randomness
- 14.02: Light As a Particle
- 14.03: Matter As a Wave
- 14.04: The Atom
- 14.05: Footnotes
- 14.06: Problems
- 15: Appendix - Scaling and Order-of-Magnitude Estimates
- 15.01: Introduction
- 15.02: Scaling of Area and Volume
- 15.03: Scaling Applied to Biology
- 15.04: Order-of-Magnitude Estimates
- 15.05: Summary
- 15.06: Problems
- 15.07: New Page