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Fundamentals of physics. II, Electromagnetism, optics, and quantum mechanics /

R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, was among the first to offer a course through the innovative Open Yale Course program. His popular online video lectures on introductory physics have been viewed over a million times. In this second book based on his online Y...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shankar, Ramamurti (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2016.
Colección:Open Yale courses series ; 2.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the expanded edition
  • Preface to the first edition
  • 1. Electrostatics I
  • 2. The electric field
  • 3. Gauss's law I
  • 4. Gauss's law II: applications
  • 5. The Coulomb potential
  • 6. Conductors and capacitors
  • 7. Circuits and currents
  • 8. Magnetism I
  • 9. Magnetism II: Biot-Savart law
  • 10. Ampère II, Faraday, and Lenz
  • 11. More Faraday
  • 12. AC circuits
  • 13. LCR circuits and displacement current
  • 14. Electromagnetic waves
  • 15. Electromagnetism and relativity
  • 16. Optics I: geometric optics revisited
  • 17. Optics II: more mirrors and lenses
  • 18. Wave theory of light
  • 19. Quantum mechanics: the main experiment
  • 20. The wave function and its interpretation
  • 21. Quantization and measurement
  • 22. States of definite energy
  • 23. Scattering and dynamics
  • 24. Summary and outlook
  • Exercises
  • Answers to Exercises
  • Constants
  • Index.