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A student's guide through the great physics texts, Kerry Kuehn

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A student's guide through the great physics texts

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Kerry Kuehn

Undergraduate lecture notes in physics,, 2192-4791

v. I. The heavens and the earth -- v. II. Space, time and motion -- v. III. Electricity, magnetism and light -- v. IV. Heat, atoms and quantaVolume 1. The heavens and the earth -- Nature, number and substance -- The shape and motion of the heavens -- Harmony and complexity -- Earth at the center of the world -- The world of Ptolemy -- Measuring the tropical Year -- Geometrical tools -- The sun, the moon and the calendar -- From Astronomy to cartography -- Climates and continents -- Heliocentrism: hypothesis or truth? -- Earth as a wandering star -- Re-ordering the heavenly spheres -- Celestial physics -- Broken spheres -- Kepler's third law -- Kepler's first and second laws -- Mountains on the moon -- The Medician stars -- The luminosity of variable stars -- Galactic spectra -- Measuring astronomical distances -- A new theory of gravity -- Euclid, Gauss and Mercury's orbit -- A finite universe with no boundary -- The structure of the universe -- Measuring the potentially infinite -- The birth of the Big Bang -- The primeval atomVolume 2. Space, time and motion: Scaling in art and nature -- The coherence of substances -- Archimedes' principle and falling bodies -- Falling bodies and pendular motion -- Pendular motion and harmony -- The law of the lever -- Beams, bones and giants -- Naturally accelerated motion -- The mean speed theorem -- Equilibrium, force and acceleration -- From conic sections to projectile motion -- The speed and force of a projectile -- Reason, authority and science -- Pascal's principle -- Submerged bodies -- Syringes, siphons and suckling infants -- Life under a sea of air -- Does nature abhor a vacuum? -- Mass, momentum and force -- Absolute and relative motion -- Newton's laws of motion -- Conservation of momentum -- The third law and the power of machines -- Centripetal force and acceleration -- Newton's rules of reasoning -- Planetary motion -- Universal gravitation -- Hypothesis and natural theology -- The principle of relativity -- The absolute speed of light -- Lorentz transformations -- Relativistic energy and Minkowski spaceVolume 3. Iron, loadstones and terrestrial magnetism -- The life and death of a magnet -- Conservation of electrical charge -- Muschenbroek's wonderful bottle -- Thunder and lightening -- Coulomb's law -- The dawn of electro-magnetism -- Electric currents, magnetic forces -- Work and weight -- Kinetic and potential energy -- Conservation of energy -- Geometric optics -- The wave theory of light -- Huygens' principle -- Reflection of light waves -- Opacity, transparency and Snell's law -- Atmospheric refraction -- The particle theory of light -- Passive laws and active principles -- Measuring light's wavelength -- Films, bubbles and rainbows -- Producing and detecting polarization -- Crystal symmetry and light rotation -- Light scattering -- Induction of electrical currents -- Arago's mysterious wheel -- Faraday's law -- The magnetic field -- Paramagnetism and Diamagnetism -- Action-at-a-distance -- Maxwell's equations -- Propagating electromagnetic fields -- Circuits, antennae and radiation -- The Michelson-Morley experimentVolume 4. A new science of heat -- Mathematics and temperature -- Steam engines and heat flow -- Carnot's cycle -- Engines as thermometers -- The second law of thermodynamics -- Work, heat, and irreversibility -- Language: concepts and conventions -- Energy and entropy -- The kinetic theory of gasses -- Molecules and Maxwell's demon -- The diffusion equation -- Radiant heat -- From positivism to objectivity -- Entropy, probability and atomism -- Corpuscles of light -- The discovery of the electron -- The birth of nuclear physics -- Radioactivity -- Atomic fission -- Nuclear structure -- The discovery of the neutron -- Neutron scattering -- X-ray diffraction -- Compton scattering -- Electron scattering and diffraction -- Matter waves -- Bohr's atomic model -- Atomic spectra and quantum numbers -- The periodic table of elements -- Wave mechanics -- The quantum paradox