College Physics, Volume 2 (Chs. 17-30)

by Young, Hugh D.; Geller, Robert

• ISBN13: 9780805378238
• ISBN10: 0805378235
• Additional ISBN(s): 9780321766236
• Edition: 8th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-24
• Publisher: Addison-Wesley
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Summary

For more than five decades, Sears and Zemansky'sCollege Physicshas provided the most reliable foundation of physics education for readers around the world. For the Eighth Edition, Robert Geller joins Hugh Young to produce a comprehensive update of this benchmark text. A broad and thorough introduction to physics, this new edition carefully integrates many solutions from educational research to help readers to develop greater confidence in solving problems, deeper conceptual understanding, and stronger quantitative-reasoning skills, while helping them connect what they learn with their other courses and the changing world around them. Models, Measurements, and Vectors, Motion along a Straight Line, Motion in a Plane, Newtonrs"s Laws of Motion, Applications of Newtonrs"s Laws, Circular Motion and Gravitation, Work and Energy, Momentum, Rotational Motion, Dynamics of Rotational Motion, Elasticity and Periodic Motion, Mechanical Waves and Sound, Fluid Mechanics, Temperature and Heat, Thermal Properties of Matter, The Second Law of Thermodynamics, Electric Charges, Forces and Fields, Electric Potential and Electric Energy, Electric Current and Direct-Current Circuits, Magnetism, Magnetic Flux and Faradayrs"s Law of Induction, Alternating Currents, Electromagnetic Waves, Geometric Optics, Optical Instruments, Interference and Diffraction, Relativity, Photons, Electrons, and Atoms, Atoms, Molecules, and Solids, 30 Nuclear and High-Energy Physics.For all readers interested in most reliable foundation of physics education. (College Physics, (Chs.1-30) with Mastering College Physics, 8/e,ISBN0-8053-9070-7

Author Biography

Hugh D. Young is Professor of Physics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, PA. He attended Carnegie Mellon for both undergraduate and graduate study and earned his Ph.D. in fundamental particle theory under the direction of the late Richard Cutkosky. He joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon in 1956, and has also spent two years as a visiting Professor at the University of California at Berkeley. Hugh's career has centered entirely around undergraduate education. He has written several undergraduate-level textbooks, and in 1973 he became a coauthor with Francis Sears and Mark Zemansky for their well-known introductory texts. In addition to his role on Sears and Zemansky's College Physics , he is currently a coauthor with Roger Freedman on Sears and Zemanksy's University Physics .

Hugh is an enthusiastic skier, climber, and hiker. He also served for several years as Associate Organist at St. Paul's Cathedral in Pittsburgh, and has played numerous organ recitals in the Pittsburgh area. Prof. Young and his wife Alice usually travel extensively in the summer, especially in Europe and in the desert canyon country of southern Utah.

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Robert M. Geller teaches physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he also obtained his Ph.D. under Robert Antonucci in observational cosmology. Currently, he is involved in two major research projects: a search for cosmological halos predicted by the Big Bang, and a search for the flares that are predicted to occur when a supermassive black hole consumes a star.

Rob also has a strong focus on undergraduate education. In 2003, he received the Distinguished Teaching Award. He trains the graduate student teaching assistants on methods of physics education. He is also a frequent faculty leader for the UCSB Physics Circus, in which student volunteers perform exciting and thought-provoking physics demonstrations to elementary schools.

Rob loves the outdoors. He and his wife Susanne enjoy backpacking along rivers and fly fishing, usually with rods she has build and flies she has tied. Their daughter Zoe loves fishing too, but her fish tend to be plastic, and float in the bathtub.

Table of Contents

Electricity and Magnetism
Electric Charge and Electric Field	p. 545
Electric Charge	p. 545
Conductors and Insulators	p. 548
Conservation and Quantization of Charge	p. 551
Coulomb's Law	p. 552
Electric Field and Electric Forces	p. 557
Calculating Electric Fields	p. 560
Electric Field Lines	p. 563
Gauss's Law and Field Calculations	p. 564
Charges on Conductors	p. 569
Electric Potential and Capacitance	p. 582
Electric Potential Energy	p. 582
Potential	p. 587
Equipotential Surfaces	p. 591
The Millikan Oil-Drop Experiment	p. 594
Capacitors	p. 595
Capacitors in Series and in Parallel	p. 598
Electric Field Energy	p. 601
Dielectrics	p. 603
Molecular Model of Induced Charge	p. 606
Current, Resistance, and Direct-Current Circuits	p. 618
Current	p. 618
Resistance and Ohm's Law	p. 620
Electromotive Force and Circuits	p. 624
Energy and Power in Electric Circuits	p. 629
Resistors in Series and in Parallel	p. 632
Kirchhoff's Rules	p. 635
Electrical Measuring Instruments	p. 640
Resistance-Capacitance Circuits	p. 640
Physiological Effects of Currents	p. 642
Power Distribution Systems	p. 643
Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces	p. 658
Magnetism	p. 658
Magnetic Field and Magnetic Force	p. 660
Motion of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field	p. 667
Mass Spectrometers	p. 669
Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor	p. 670
Force and Torque on a Current Loop	p. 673
Magnetic Field of a Long, Straight Conductor	p. 677
Force between Parallel Conductors	p. 678
Current Loops and Solenoids	p. 680
Magnetic Field Calculations	p. 682
Magnetic Materials	p. 685
Electromagnetic Induction	p. 698
Induction Experiments	p. 698
Magnetic Flux	p. 700
Faraday's Law	p. 702
Lenz's Law	p. 706
Motional Electromotive Force	p. 709
Eddy Currents	p. 711
Mutual Inductance	p. 712
Self-Inductance	p. 714
Transformers	p. 716
Magnetic Field Energy	p. 719
The R-L Circuit	p. 721
The L-C Circuit	p. 724
Alternating Current	p. 735
Phasors and Alternating Currents	p. 735
Resistance and Reactance	p. 738
The Series R-L-C Circuit	p. 744
Power in Alternating-Current Circuits	p. 748
Series Resonance	p. 751
Parallel Resonance	p. 753
Electromagnetic Waves	p. 761
Introduction to Electromagnetic Waves	p. 761
Speed of an Electromagnetic Wave	p. 762
The Electromagnetic Spectrum	p. 764
Sinusoidal Waves	p. 765
Energy in Electromagnetic Waves	p. 768
Nature of Light	p. 772
Reflection and Refraction	p. 774
Total Internal Reflection	p. 780
Dispersion	p. 782
Polarization	p. 783
Huygen's Principle	p. 789
Scattering of Light	p. 791
Geometric Optics	p. 803
Reflection at a Plane Surface	p. 803
Reflection at a Spherical Surface	p. 806
Graphical Methods for Mirrors	p. 813
Refraction at a Spherical Surface	p. 815
Thin Lenses	p. 819
Graphical Methods for Lenses	p. 825
Optical Instruments	p. 837
The Camera	p. 837
The Projector	p. 840
The Eye	p. 841
The Magnifier	p. 845
The Microscope	p. 847
Telescopes	p. 849
Lens Aberrations	p. 852
Interference and Diffraction	p. 862
Interference and Coherent Sources	p. 862
Two-Source Interference of Light	p. 865
Interference in Thin Films	p. 868
Diffraction	p. 873
Diffraction from a Single Slit	p. 875
Multiple Slits and Diffraction Gratings	p. 879
X-Ray Diffraction	p. 882
Circular Apertures and Resolving Power	p. 885
Holography	p. 888
Relativity	p. 899
Invariance of Physical Laws	p. 900
Relative Nature of Simultaneity	p. 903
Relativity of Time	p. 905
Relativity of Length	p. 909
The Lorentz Transformation	p. 913
Relativistic Momentum	p. 916
Relativistic Work and Energy	p. 919
Relativity and Newtonian Mechanics	p. 922
Photons, Electrons, and Atoms	p. 932
The Photoelectric Effect	p. 933
Line Spectra and Energy Levels	p. 938
The Nuclear Atom and the Bohr Model	p. 943
The Laser	p. 950
X-Ray Production and Scattering	p. 951
The Wave Nature of Particles	p. 954
Wave-Particle Duality	p. 957
The Electron Microscope	p. 961
Atoms, Molecules, and Solids	p. 971
Electrons in Atoms	p. 971
Atomic Structure	p. 979
Diatomic Molecules	p. 983
Structure and Properties of Solids	p. 987
Energy Bands	p. 989
Semiconductors	p. 990
Semiconductor Devices	p. 992
Superconductivity	p. 995
Nuclear and High-Energy Physics	p. 1003
Properties of Nuclei	p. 1003
Nuclear Stability	p. 1008
Radioactivity	p. 1011
Radiation and the Life Sciences	p. 1017
Nuclear Reactions	p. 1021
Nuclear Fission	p. 1023
Nuclear Fusion	p. 1027
Fundamental Particles	p. 1028
High-Energy Physics	p. 1030
Cosmology	p. 1036
Mathematics Review	p. 1
The International System of Units	p. 10
The Greek Alphabet	p. 12
Periodic Table of Elements	p. 13
Unit Conversion Factors	p. 14
Numerical Constants	p. 15
Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems	p. 17
Credits	p. 1
Index	p. 1
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