Calculus-Based Physics II

Volume II of a two-volume introductory calculus-based physics textbook is available free of charge. Calculus-Based Physics is an introductory physics textbook designed for use in the two-semester introductory physics course typically taken by science and engineering students. Calculus-Based Physics is a free physics textbook.

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There is the assumption that low or no cost means low quality. I think folks that read the book will discover the fallacy of that argument. The bottom line is that I wanted a book that would be ideally suited to my own calculusbased physics course and I wanted to make it available to physics professors in a way that would allow them either to either use it as is or to easily edit it to create a book ideally suited, in the case of each professor, to their own physics course, a book that they could, if desired, release to the public to provide another starting point for the cycle. That’s why I wrote it, and that’s why I released it for free. I hope you find it useful.

Table of Contents

• Charge & Coulomb’s Law
• The Electric Field: Description and Effect
• The Electric Field Due to one or more Point Charges
• Conductors and the Electric Field
• Work Done by the Electric Field, and, the Electric Potential
• The Electric Potential Due to One or More Point Charges
• Equipotential Surfaces, Conductors, and Voltage
• Capacitors, Dielectrics, and Energy in Capacitors
• Electric Current, EMF, Ohm’s Law
• Resistors in Series and Parallel; Measuring I & V
• Resistivity, Power
• Kirchhoff’s Rules, Terminal Voltage
• RC Circuits
• Capacitors in Series & Parallel
• Magnetic Field Intro: Effects
• Magnetic Field: More Effects
• Magnetic Field: Causes
• Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s Law
• Induction, Transformers, and Generators
• Faraday’s Law and Maxwell’s Extension to Ampere’s Law
• The Nature of Electromagnetic Waves
• Huygens’s Principle and 2-Slit Interference
• Single-Slit Diffraction
• Thin Film Interference
• Polarization
• Geometric Optics, Reflection
• Refraction, Dispersion, Internal Reflection
• Thin Lenses: Ray Tracing
• Thin Lenses: Lens Equation, Optical Power
• The Electric Field Due to a Continuous Distribution of Charge on a Line
• The Electric Potential due to a Continuous Charge Distribution
• Calculating the Electric Field from the Electric Potential
• Gauss’s Law
• Gauss’s Law Example
• Gauss’s Law for the Magnetic Field, and, Ampere’s Law Revisited
• The Biot-Savart Law
• Maxwell’s Equations

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