Fundamentals of Physics, Volume 2

Renowned for its interactive focus on conceptual understanding, its superlative problem-solving instruction, and emphasis on reasoning skills, the Fundamentals of Physics: Volume 2, 12th Edition, is an industry-leading resource in physics teaching. With expansive, insightful, and accessible treatments of a wide variety of subjects, including photons, matter waves, diffraction, and relativity, the book is an invaluable reference for physics educators and students. In the second volume of this two-volume set, the authors discuss subjects including Coulomb’s Law, Gauss’s Law, and Maxwell’s Equations.

Table of Contents

21 Coulomb’s law

22 Electric Fields

23 Gauss’s Law

24 Electric Potential

25 Capacitance

26 Current Resistance

27 Circuits

28 Magnetic Fields

29 Magnetic Fields Due to Currents

30 Induction and Inductance

31 Electromagnetic Oscillations and Alternating Current

32 Maxwell’s Equations; Magnetism of Matter

33 Electromagnetic Waves

34 Images

35 Interference

36 Diffraction

37 Relativity

38 Photons and Matter Waves

39 More About Matter Waves

40 All About Atoms

41 Conduction of Electricity in Solids

42 Nuclear Physics

43 Energy from the Nucleus

44 Quarks, Leptons, and the Big Bang

Appendix A THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM OF UNITS {SI)*

Appendix B SOME FUNDAMENTAL CONSTANTS OF PHYSICS*

Appendix C SOME ASTRONOMICAL DATA

Appendix D CONVERSION FACTORS

Appendix E MATHEMATICAL FORMULAS

Appendix F PROPERTIES OF THE ELEMENTS

Appendix G PERIODIC TABLE OF THE ELEMENTS

Answers To Checkpoints and Odd-Numbered Questions and Problems