University Physics for JEE Mains and Advance

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Chapter 1: Electric Charge and Electric Field
	1.1 Electric Charge
	1.2 Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges
	1.3 Coulomb’s Law
	1.4 Electric Field and Electric Forces
	1.5 Electric-Field Calculations
	1.6 Electric Field Lines
	1.7 Electric Dipoles
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Chapter 2: Gauss’s Law
	2.1 Charge and Electric Flux
	2.2 Calculating Electric Flux
	2.3 Gauss’s Law
	2.4 Applications of Gauss’s Law
	2.5 Charges on Conductors
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Chapter 3: Electric Potential
	3.1 Electric Potential Energy
	3.2 Electric Potential
	3.3 Calculating Electric Potential
	3.4 Equipotential Surfaces
	3.5 Potential Gradient
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Chapter 4: Capacitance and Dielectrics
	4.1 Capacitors and Capacitance
	4.2 Capacitors in Series and Parallel
	4.3 Energy Storage in Capacitors and Electric-Field Energy
	4.4 Dielectrics
	4.5 Molecular Model of Induced Charge
	4.6 Gauss’s Law in Dielectrics
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Chapter 5: Current, Resistance, and Electromotive Force
	5.1 Current
	5.2 Resistivity
	5.3 Resistance
	5.4 Electromotive Force and Circuits
	5.5 Energy and Power in Electric Circuits
	5.6 Theory of Metallic Conduction
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Chapter 6: Direct-Current Circuits
	6.1 Resistors in Series and Parallel
	6.2 Kirchhoff’s Rules
	6.3 Electrical Measuring Instruments
	6.4 R-C Circuits
	6.5 Power Distribution Systems
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Chapter 7: Magnetic Field and Magnetic Forces
	7.1 Magnetism
	7.2 Magnetic Field
	7.3 Magnetic Field Lines and Magnetic Flux
	7.4 Motion of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field
	7.5 Applications of Motion of Charged Particles
	7.6 Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor
	7.7 Force and Torque on a Current Loop
	7.8 The Direct-Current Motor
	7.9 The Hall Effect
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Chapter 8: Sources of Magnetic Field
	8.1 Magnetic Field of a Moving Charge
	8.2 Magnetic Field of a Current Element
	8.3 Magnetic Field of a Straight Current-Carrying Conductor
	8.4 Force Between Parallel Conductors
	8.5 Magnetic Field of a Circular Current Loop
	8.6 Ampere’s Law
	8.7 Applications of Ampere’s Law
	8.8 Magnetic Materials
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Chapter 9: Electromagnetic Induction
	9.1 Induction Experiments
	9.2 Faraday’s Law
	9.3 Lenz’s Law
	9.4 Motional Electromotive Force
	9.5 Induced Electric Fields
	9.6 Eddy Currents
	9.7 Displacement Current and Maxwell’s Equations
	9.8 Superconductivity
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Chapter 10: Inductance
	10.1 Mutual Inductance
	10.2 Self-Inductance and Inductors
	10.3 Magnetic-Field Energy
	10.4 The R-L Circuit
	10.5 The L-C Circuit
	10.6 The L-R-C Series Circuit
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Chapter 11: Alternating Current
	11.1 Phasors and Alternating Currents
	11.2 Resistance and Reactance
	11.3 The L-R-C Series Circuit
	11.4 Power in Alternating-Current Circuits
	11.5 Resonance in Alternating-Current Circuits
	11.6 Transformers
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Chapter 12: Electromagnetic Waves
	12.1 Maxwell’s Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
	12.2 Plane Electromagnetic Waves and the Speed of Light
	12.3 Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Waves
	12.4 Energy and Momentum in Electromagnetic Waves
	12.5 Standing Electromagnetic Waves
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Chapter 13: The Nature and Propagation of Light
	13.1 The Nature of Light
	13.2 Reflection and Refraction
	13.3 Total Internal Reflection
	13.4 Dispersion
	13.5 Polarization
	13.6 Scattering of Light
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Chapter 14: Geometric Optics
	14.1 Reflection and Refraction at a Plane Surface
	14.2 Reflection at a Spherical Surface
	14.3 Refraction at a Spherical Surface
	14.4 Thin Lenses
	14.5 Cameras
	14.6 The Eye
	14.7 The Magnifier
	14.8 Microscopes and Telescopes
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Chapter 15: Interference
	15.1 Interference and Coherent Sources
	15.2 Two-Source Interference of Light
	15.3 Intensity in Interference Patterns
	15.4 Interference in Thin Films
	15.5 The Michelson Interferometer
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Chapter 16: Diffraction
	16.1 Fresnel and Fraunhofer Diffraction
	16.2 Diffraction from a Single Slit
	16.3 Intensity in the Single-Slit Pattern
	16.4 Circular Apertures and Resolving Power
	16.5 Holography
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Chapter 17: Photons: Light Waves Behaving as Particles
	17.1 Light Absorbed as Photons: The Photoelectric Effect
	17.2 Light Emitted as Photons: X-Ray Production
	17.3 Light Scattered as Photons: Compton Scattering and Pair Production
	17.4 Wave–Particle Duality, Probability, and Uncertainty
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Chapter 18: Particles Behaving as Waves
	18.1 Electron Waves
	18.2 The Nuclear Atom and Atomic Spectra
	18.3 Energy Levels and the Bohr Model of the Atom
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Chapter 19: Nuclear Physics
	19.1 Properties of Nuclei
	19.2 Nuclear Binding and Nuclear Structure
	19.3 Nuclear Stability and Radioactivity
	19.4 Activities and Half-Lives
	19.5 Biological Effects of Radiation
	19.6 Nuclear Reactions
	19.7 Nuclear Fission
	19.8 Nuclear Fusion
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