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Introduction, measurement, estimating -- Describing motion -- Kinematics in two or three dimensions -- Dynamics -- Using Newton's laws -- Gravitation and Newton's synthesis -- Work and energy -- Conservation of energy -- Linear momentum -- Rotational motion -- Angular momentum -- Static equilibrium -- Fluids -- Oscillations -- Wave motion -- Sound -- Temperature, thermal expansion, and the ideal gas law -- Kinetic theory of gases -- Heat and the first law of thermodynamics -- Second law of thermodynamics -- Electric charge and electric field -- Gauss's law -- Electric potential -- Capacitance, dielectrics, electric energy storage -- Electric currents and resistance -- DC circuits -- Magnetism -- Sources of magnetic field -- Electromagnetic induction and Faraday's Law -- Inductance, electromagnetic oscillations, and AC circuits -- Maxwell's equations and electromagnetic waves -- Light -- Lenses and optical instruments -- The wave nature of light -- Diffraction and polarization -- The special theory of relativity -- Early quantum theory and models of the atom -- Quantum mechanics -- Quantum mechanics of atoms -- Molecules and solids -- Nuclear physics and radioactivity -- Nuclear energy -- Elementary particles -- Astrophysics and cosmology. |
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