Physics: A General Course: Electricity & Magnetism, Waves, Optics

Front Cover
Title Page
PREFACE
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I THE PHYSICAL FUNDAMENTALS OF MECHANICS
	1 KINEMATICS
		1.1. Mechanical Motion
		1.2. Vectors
		1.3. Velocity and Speed
		1.4. Acceleration
		1.5. Circular Motion
	2 DYNAMICS OF A POINT PARTICLE
		2.1. Classical Mechanics. Range of Its Applicability
		2.2. Newton\'s First Law. Inertial Reference Frames
		2.3. Mass and Momentum of a Body
		2.4. Newton\'s Second Law
		2.5. Units and Dimensions of Physical Quantities
		2.6. Newton\'s Third Law
		2.7. Galileo\'s Relativity Principle
		2.8. Forces
		2.9. Elastic Forces
		2.10. Friction Forces
		2.11. Force of Gravity and Weight
		2.12. Practical Application of Newton\'s Laws
	3 LAWS OF CONSERVATION
		3.1. Quantities Obeying the Laws of Conservation
		3.2. Kinetic Energy
		3.3. Work
		3.4. Conservative Forces
		3.5. Potential Energy in an External Force Field
		3.6. Potential Energy of Interaction
		3.7. Law of Conservation of Energy
		3.8. Energy of Elastic Deformation
		3.9. Equilibrium Conditions of a Mechanical System
		3.10. Law of Momentum Conservation
		3.11. Collision of Two Bodies
		3.12. Law of Angular Momentum Conservation
		3.13. Motion in a Central Force Field
		3.14. Two-Body Problem
	4 NON-INERTIAL REFERENCE FRAMES
		4.1. Forces of Inertia
		4.2. Centrifugal Force of Inertia
		4.3. Coriolis Force
		4.4. Laws of Conservation in Non-Inertial Reference Frames
	5 MECHANICS OF A RIGID BODY
		5.1. Motion of a Body
		5.2. Motion of the Centre of Mass of a Body
		5.3. Rotation of a Body about a Fixed Axis
		5.4. Moment of Inertia
		5.5. Concept of Inertia Tensor
		5.6. Kinetic Energy of a Rotating Body
		5. 7. Kinetic Energy of a Body in Plane Motion
		5.8. Application of the Laws of Dynamics of a Body
		5.9. Gyroscopes
	6 UNIVERSAL GRAVITATION
		6.1. Law of Universal Gravitation
		6.2. Gravitational Field
		6.3. The Equivalence Principle
		6.4. Orbital and Escape Velocities
	7 OSCILLATORY MOTION
		7.1. General
		7.2. Small-Amplitude Oscillations
		7.3. Complex Numbers
		7 .4. Linear Differential Equations
		7.5. Harmonic Oscillations
		7.6. The Pendulum
		7.7. Vector Diagram
		7.8. Beats
		7.9. Addition of Mutually Perpendicular Oscillations
		7.10. Damped Oscillations
		7.11. Auto-Oscillations
		7.12. Forced Oscillations
		7.13. Parametric Resonance
	8 RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS
		8.1. The Special Theory of Relativity
		8.2. Lorentz Transformations
		8.3. Corollaries of the Lorentz Transformations
		8.4. Interval
		8.5. Transformation and Addition Of Velocities
		8.6. Relativistic Expression for the Momentum
		8.7. Relativistic Expression for the Energy
		8.8. Transformations of Momentum and Energy
		8.9. Relation Between Mass and Energy
		8.10. Particles with a Zero Rest Mass
	9 HYDRODYNAMICS
		9.1. Streamlines and Flow Tubes. Flow Continuity
		9.2. Bernoulli\'s Equation
		9.3. Flow of a Liquid from a Hole
		9.4. Forces of Internal Friction
		9.5. Laminar and Turbulent Flows
		9.6. Flow of a Liquid in a Round Pipe
PART II MOLECULAR PHYSICS AND THERMODYNAMICS
	10 GENERAL INFORMATION
		10.1. Statistical Physics and Thermodynamicss
		10.2. Mass and Size of Molecules
		10.3. State of a System. Process
		10.4. Internal Energy of a System
		10.5. The First Law of Thermodynamics
		10.6. Work Done by a Body upon Changes in Volume
		10.7. Temperature
		10.8. Equation of State of an Ideal Gas
		10.9. Internal Energy and Heat Capacity of an Ideal Gas
		10.10. Equation of Adiabat of an Ideal Gas
		10.11. Polytropic Processes
		10.12. Work of an Ideal Gas in Different Processes
		10.13. Van der Waals Gas
		10.14. The Barometric Formula
	11 STATISTICAL PHYSICS
		11.1. Information from the Theory of Probability
		11.2. Nature of the Thermal Motion of Molecules
		11.3. Number of Collisions of Molecules with a Wall
		11.4. Pressure of a Gas on a Wall
		11.5. Mean Energy of Molecules
		11.6. The Maxwell Distribution
		11.7. Experimental Verification of the Maxwell Distribution Law
		11.8. The Boltzmann Distribution
		11.9. Determination of the Avogadro Constant by Perin
		11.10. Macro- and Microstates. Statistical Weight
		11.11. Entropy
	12 THERMODYNAMICS
		12.1. Fundamental Laws
		12.2. The Carnot Cycle
		12.3. The Thermodynamic Temperature Scale
		12.4. Examples of Calculating the Entropy
		12.5. Some Applications of Entropy
		12.6. Thermodynamic Potentials
	13 THE CRYSTALLINE STATE
		13.1. Features of the Crystalline State
		13.2. Classification of Crystals
		13.3. Physical Kinds of Crystal Lattices
		13.4. Defects in Crystals
		13.5. Heat Capacity of Crystals
	14 THE LIQUID STATE
		14.1. The Structure of Liquids
		14.2. Surface Tension
		14.3. Pressure under a Curved Liquid Surface
		14.4. Phenomena on Liquid-Solid Interface
		14.5. Capillary Phenomena
	15 PHASE EQUILlBRIA AND TRANSITIONS
		15.1. Introduction
		15.2. Evaporation and Condensation
		15.3. Equilibrium Between a Liquid and Its Saturated Vapour
		15.4. The Critical State
		15.5. Supersaturated Vapour and Superheated Liquid
		15.6. Melting and Crystallization
		15.7. The Clapeyron-Clausius Equation
		15.8. Triple Point. Phase Diagram
	16 PHYSICAL KINETICS
		16.1. Transport Phenomena
		16.2. Mean Free Path
		16.3. Diffusion in Gases
		16.4. Thermal Conductivity of Gases
		16.5. Viscosity of Gases
		16.6. Ultrararefied Gases
APPENDICES
	A.1. List of Symbols
	A.2. Calculation of Selected Integrals
	A.3. The Stirling Formula
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