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Question: Topics Your Textbook Must Cover

The chapter numbers between editions of Serway's Physics for Scientists and Engineers with Modern Physics, and also other textbooks, will not match. Be sure that your book contains the topics you will need for this course.

The topics your textbook will need for this course are:

1. Solids and Fluids

• Pressure

• Variation of Pressure with Depth

• Pressure Measurements

• Buoyant Forces and Archimede's Principle

• Fluids in Motion

• Fluid Dynamics

• Bernoulli's Equation

2. Vibrations and Waves

• Properties of Waves

• Propagation of a Disturbance

• Analysis Model: Traveling Waves

• Waves on a String

• The Speed of Waves on a String

• Reflection and Transmission

3. Sound Waves

• Pressure Variations in Sound Waves

• Speed of Sound Waves

• Intensity of Periodic Sound Waves

• The Doppler Effect

4. Wave Interference

• Analysis Model: Waves in Interference

• Standing Waves

• Analysis Model: Waves under Boundary Conditions

• Resonance

• Standing Waves in Air Columns

• Beats: Interference in Time

5. Temperature and Thermal Expansion

• Temperature and the Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics

• Thermometers and the Celsius Temperature Scale

• The Constant-Volume Gas Thermometer and the Absolute Temperature Scale

• Thermal Expansion of Solids and Liquids

• Macroscopic Description of an Ideal Gas

6. Energy in Thermal Processes

• Heat and Internal Energy

• Specific Heat and Calorimetry

• Latent Heat

• Energy Transfer Mechanisms in Thermal Processes

7. The Laws of Thermodynamics

• Work and Heat in Thermodynamic Processes

• The First Law of Thermodynamics

• Some Applications of the First Law of Thermodynamics

• Molecular Model of an Ideal Gas

• Molar Specific Heat of an Ideal Gas

• Adiabatic Processes for an Ideal Gas

• Heat Engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

• Heat Pumps and Refrigerators

• Reversible and Irreversible Processes

• The Carnot Engine

• Gasoline and Diesel Engines

• Entropy

• Changes in Entropy for Thermodynamic Systems

• Entropy and the Second Law of Thermodynamics

8. Optics

• The Nature of Light

• Reflection and Refraction

• Measurements of the Speed of Light

• The Ray Approximation in Ray Optics

• Analysis Model: Wave under Reflection

• Analysis Model: Wave under Refraction

• Huygen's Principle

• Dispersion

• Total Internal Reflection

9. Mirrors and Lenses

• Images Formed by Flat Mirrors

• Images Formed by Spherical Mirrors

• Images Formed by Refraction

• Images Formed by Thin Lenses

• Lens Aberrations

• The Camera

• The Eye

• The Simple Magnifier

• The Compound Microscope

• The Telescope

10. Wave Optics

• Young's Double-Slit Experiment

• Analysis Model: Waves in Interference

• Change of Phase Due to Reflection

• Interference in Thin Films

• Introduction to Diffraction Patterns

• Diffraction Patterns from Narrow Slits

• Resolution of Single-Slit and Circular Aperatures

• The Diffraction Grating

• Polarization of Light Waves

11. Relativity

• Special Relativity

• The Principle of Galilean Relativity

• The Michelson-Morley Experiment

• Einstein's Principle of Relativity

• Consequences of the Special Theory of Relativity

• The Lorentz Transformation Equations

• The Lorentz Velocity Transformation Equations

• Relativistic Linear Momentum

• Relativistic Energy

• The General Theory of Relativity

12. Quantum Physics

• The Photelectric Effect

• The Compton Effect

• The Nature of Electromagnetic Waves

• The Wave Properties of Particles

• The Double-Slit Experiment Revisited

• The Uncertainty Principle

13. Atomic Physics

• Atomic Spectra of Gases

• Early Models of the Atom

• Bohr's Model of the Hydrogen Atom

• The Quantum Model of the Hydrogen Atom

• The Wave Function for Hydrogen

14. Nuclear Physics

• Some Properties of Nuclei

• Nuclear Binding Energy

• Nuclear Models

• Radioactivity

• The Decay Processes

• Natural Radioactivity

• Nuclear Reactions

• Interactions Involving Neutrons

• Nuclear Fission

• Nuclear Reactors

• Nuclear Fusion

• Radiation Damage

Course Organization

The course is divided into ten lessons:

1. Fluids

2. Waves

3. Wave Interference

4. Heat and Work

5. Heat engines

6. Optics

7. Light Interference

8. Relativity

9. Quantum Physics

10. Nuclear Physics

Each lesson contains a study guide, activities and assignments, and a quiz.