Focus on the fundamentals and help students see connections between problem types
Richard Wolfson’s Essential University Physics is a concise and progressive calculus-based physics textbook that offers clear writing, great problems, and relevant real-life applications in an affordable and streamlined text. The book teaches sound problem-solving strategies and emphasises conceptual understanding, using features such as annotated figures and step-by-step problem-solving strategies. Realising students have changed a great deal over time while the fundamentals of physics have changed very little, Wolfson makes physics relevant and alive for students by sharing the latest physics applications in a succinct and captivating style.
The 4th Edition, Global Edition, incorporates research from instructors, reviewers, and thousands of students to expand the book’s problem sets and consistent problem-solving strategy. A new problem type guides students to see patterns, make connections between problems that can be solved using similar steps, and apply those steps when working problems on homework and exams.
Volume 2 contains Chapters 20-39
Available for separate purchase is Volume 1 containing Chapters 1-19
Author(s): Richard Wolfson
Edition: 4
Publisher: Pearson
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 497
Front Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Brief Contents
Detailed Contents
About the Author
Preface to the Instructor
Preface to the Student
Video Tutor Demonstrations
Part Four Electromagnetism
20 Electric Charge, Force, and Field
20.1 Electric Charge
20.2 Coulomb’s Law
20.3 The Electric Field
20.4 Fields of Charge Distributions
20.5 Matter in Electric Fields
21 Gauss’s Law
21.1 Electric Field Lines
21.2 Electric Field and Electric Flux
21.3 Gauss’s Law
21.4 Using Gauss’s Law
21.5 Fields of Arbitrary Charge Distributions
21.6 Gauss’s Law and Conductors
22 Electric Potential
22.1 Electric Potential Difference
22.2 Calculating Potential Difference
22.3 Potential Difference and the Electric Field
22.4 Charged Conductors
23 Electrostatic Energy and Capacitors
23.1 Electrostatic Energy
23.2 Capacitors
23.3 Using Capacitors
23.4 Energy in the Electric Field
24 Electric Current
24.1 Electric Current
24.2 Conduction Mechanisms
24.3 Resistance and Ohm’s Law
24.4 Electric Power
24.5 Electrical Safety
25 Electric Circuits
25.1 Circuits, Symbols, and Electromotive Force
25.2 Series and Parallel Resistors
25.3 Kirchhoff’s Laws and Multiloop Circuits
25.4 Electrical Measurements
25.5 Capacitors in Circuits
26 Magnetism: Force and Field
26.1 What Is Magnetism?
26.2 Magnetic Force and Field
26.3 Charged Particles in Magnetic Fields
26.4 The Magnetic Force on a Current
26.5 Origin of the Magnetic Field
26.6 Magnetic Dipoles
26.7 Magnetic Matter
26.8 Ampère’s Law
27 Electromagnetic Induction
27.1 Induced Currents
27.2 Faraday’s Law
27.3 Induction and Energy
27.4 Inductance
27.5 Magnetic Energy
27.6 Induced Electric Fields
28 Alternating-current Circuits
28.1 Alternating Current
28.2 Circuit Elements in Ac Circuits
28.3 LC Circuits
28.4 Driven RLC Circuits and Resonance
28.5 Power in AC Circuits
28.6 Transformers and Power Supplies
29 Maxwell’s Equations and Electromagnetic Waves
29.1 The Four Laws of Electromagnetism
29.2 Ambiguity in Ampère’s Law
29.3 Maxwell’s Equations
29.4 Electromagnetic Waves
29.5 Properties of Electromagnetic Waves
29.6 The Electromagnetic Spectrum
29.7 Producing Electromagnetic Waves
29.8 Energy and Momentum in Electromagnetic Waves
Part Five Optics
30 Reflection and Refraction
30.1 Reflection
30.2 Refraction
30.3 Total Internal Reflection
30.4 Dispersion
31 Images and Optical Instruments
31.1 Images with Mirrors
31.2 Images with Lenses
31.3 Refraction in Lenses: the Details
31.4 Optical Instruments
32 Interference and Diffraction
32.1 Coherence and Interference
32.2 Double-Slit Interference
32.3 Multiple-Slit Interference and Diffraction Gratings
32.4 Interferometry
32.5 Huygens’ Principle and Diffraction
32.6 The Diffraction Limit
Part Six Modern Physics
33 Relativity
33.1 Speed c Relative to What?
33.2 Matter, Motion, and the Ether
33.3 Special Relativity
33.4 Space and Time in Relativity
33.5 Simultaneity Is Relative
33.6 The Lorentz Transformations
33.7 Energy and Momentum in Relativity
33.8 Electromagnetism and Relativity
33.9 General Relativity
34 Particles and Waves
34.1 Toward Quantum Theory
34.2 Blackbody Radiation
34.3 Photons
34.4 Atomic Spectra and the Bohr Atom
34.5 Matter Waves
34.6 the Uncertainty Principle
34.7 Complementarity
35 Quantum Mechanics
35.1 Particles, Waves, and Probability
35.2 The Schrödinger Equation
35.3 Particles and Potentials
35.4 Quantum Mechanics in Three Dimensions
35.5 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
36 Atomic Physics
36.1 The Hydrogen Atom
36.2 Electron Spin
36.3 The Exclusion Principle
36.4 Multielectron Atoms and the Periodic Table
36.5 Transitions and Atomic Spectra
37 Molecules and Solids
37.1 Molecular Bonding
37.2 Molecular Energy Levels
37.3 Solids
37.4 Superconductivity
38 Nuclear Physics
38.1 Elements, Isotopes, and Nuclear Structure
38.2 Radioactivity
38.3 Binding Energy and Nucleosynthesis
38.4 Nuclear Fission
38.5 Nuclear Fusion
39 From Quarks to the Cosmos
39.1 Particles and Forces
39.2 Particles and More Particles
39.3 Quarks and the Standard Model
39.4 Unification
39.5 The Evolving Universe
Appendices
Appendix A Mathematics
Appendix B The International Systemof Units (SI)
Appendix C Conversion Factors
Appendix D The Elements
Appendix E Astrophysical Data
Answers to Odd-Numbered Problems
Credits
Index
