Synopsis
This material was developed for the second term of the first year calculus-based, introductory physics course at the University of Alberta. It contains a richer, more in-depth mathematical treatment of the material than many standard texts for first year courses and starts with the assumption that the reader is already familiar with calculus of polynomials and trigonometric and exponential functions. The book has the following chapters each of which has its own end of chapter problems: Mathematics - Complex numbers, complex exponentials, partial derivatives, experimental uncertainties. Elasticity - Stress, strain, moduli of elasticity, bulk stress, strain and modulus Fluid Statics - pressure, Pascal's law, measuring pressures, Archimedes' principle Fluid Dynamics - continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation, Torricelli's law, viscosity, Poiseuille's law, Stokes' law Oscillations - simple harmonic motion, simple and compound pendulums, damped harmonic motion, driven oscillators Waves - types of waves, mathematical description of a wave, waves on a string, acoustic waves, wave power and intensity, principle of superposition, reflection at a boundary, interference, beats, standing waves, the relativistic and non-relativistic doppler effect Light Waves - basic geometric optics, Huyghens' principle, dispersion, polarization, thin film interference, diffraction Introduction to Quantum Mechanics - atomic spectra, blackbody spectrum, photo-electric effect, Bohr atom, de Broglie wavelength, Schrodinger equation In addition there are two appendices which cover some of the more mathematically challenging topics in detail: Wave Equations - derivation and general solution of the partial differential wave equation, derivation of the pressure and displacement wave equation for acoustic waves Blackbody Spectrum - 2D and 3D standing waves, density of states for a cavity, calculation of Planck's spectrum, derivation of Wien's displacement law
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About the Author
Roger Moore is a Professor of Physics at the University of Alberta. He is a member of the ATLAS experiment on the LHC at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland where is current research interests focus on Supersymmetry, a possible symmetry between force and matter, and searching for Dark Matter. Before joining ATLAS he was co-head of a major trigger subsystem of the DØ detector at Fermilab in Batavia, IL where he was also a member of the analysis group which discovered single top quark production. Prior to coming to Canada, Dr. Moore was a research associate at Michigan State University and a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Cambridge, where he also earned his PhD.
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