University Physics Volume 3
Preface
Optics
1. The Nature of Light
1.1 The Propagation of Light
1.2 The Law of Reflection
1.3 Refraction
1.4 Total Internal Reflection
1.5 Dispersion
1.6 Huygens’s Principle
1.7 Polarization
2. Geometric Optics and Image Formation
2.1 Images Formed by Plane Mirrors
2.2 Spherical Mirrors
2.3 Images Formed by Refraction
2.4 Thin Lenses
2.5 The Eye
2.6 The Camera
2.7 The Simple Magnifier
2.8 Microscopes and Telescopes
3. Interference
3.1 Young's Double-Slit Interference
3.2 Mathematics of Interference
3.3 Multiple-Slit Interference
3.4 Interference in Thin Films
3.5 The Michelson Interferometer
4. Diffraction
4.1 Single-Slit Diffraction
4.2 Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction
4.3 Double-Slit Diffraction
4.4 Diffraction Gratings
4.5 Circular Apertures and Resolution
4.6 X-Ray Diffraction
4.7 Holography
Modern Physics
5. Relativity
5.1 Invariance of Physical Laws
5.2 Relativity of Simultaneity
5.3 Time Dilation
5.4 Length Contraction
5.5 The Lorentz Transformation
5.6 Relativistic Velocity Transformation
5.7 Doppler Effect for Light
5.8 Relativistic Momentum
5.9 Relativistic Energy
6. Photons and Matter Waves
6.1 Blackbody Radiation
6.2 Photoelectric Effect
6.3 The Compton Effect
6.4 Bohr’s Model of the Hydrogen Atom
6.5 De Broglie’s Matter Waves
6.6 Wave-Particle Duality
7. Quantum Mechanics
7.1 Wave Functions
7.2 The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
7.3 The Schrӧdinger Equation
7.4 The Quantum Particle in a Box
7.5 The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
7.6 The Quantum Tunneling of Particles through Potential Barriers
8. Atomic Structure
8.1 The Hydrogen Atom
8.2 Orbital Magnetic Dipole Moment of the Electron
8.3 Electron Spin
8.4 The Exclusion Principle and the Periodic Table
8.5 Atomic Spectra and X-rays
8.6 Lasers
9. Condensed Matter Physics
9.1 Types of Molecular Bonds
9.2 Molecular Spectra
9.3 Bonding in Crystalline Solids
9.4 Free Electron Model of Metals
9.5 Band Theory of Solids
9.6 Semiconductors and Doping
9.7 Semiconductor Devices
9.8 Superconductivity
10. Nuclear Physics
10.1 Properties of Nuclei
10.2 Nuclear Binding Energy
10.3 Radioactive Decay
10.4 Nuclear Reactions
10.5 Fission
10.6 Nuclear Fusion
10.7 Medical Applications and Biological Effects of Nuclear Radiation
11. Particle Physics and Cosmology
11.1 Introduction to Particle Physics
11.2 Particle Conservation Laws
11.3 Quarks
11.4 Particle Accelerators and Detectors
11.5 The Standard Model
11.6 The Big Bang
11.7 Evolution of the Early Universe
Appendix A: Units
Appendix B: Conversion Factors
Appendix C: Fundamental Constants
Appendix D: Astronomical Data
Appendix E: Mathematical Formulas
Appendix F: Chemistry
Appendix G: The Greek Alphabet
