Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Propagation of Light
3. The Law of Reflection
4. Refraction
5. Total Internal Reflection
6. Dispersion
7. Huygens’s Principle
8. Polarization
9. Introduction
10. Images Formed by Plane Mirrors
11. Spherical Mirrors
12. Images Formed by Refraction
13. Thin Lenses
14. The Eye
15. The Camera
16. The Simple Magnifier
17. Microscopes and Telescopes
18. Introduction
19. Young's Double-Slit Interference
20. Mathematics of Interference
21. Multiple-Slit Interference
22. Interference in Thin Films
23. The Michelson Interferometer
24. Introduction
25. Single-Slit Diffraction
26. Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction
27. Double-Slit Diffraction
28. Diffraction Gratings
29. Circular Apertures and Resolution
30. X-Ray Diffraction
31. Holography
32. Introduction
33. Invariance of Physical Laws
34. Relativity of Simultaneity
35. Time Dilation
36. Length Contraction
37. The Lorentz Transformation
38. Relativistic Velocity Transformation
39. Doppler Effect for Light
40. Relativistic Momentum
41. Relativistic Energy
42. Introduction
43. Blackbody Radiation
44. Photoelectric Effect
45. The Compton Effect
46. Bohr’s Model of the Hydrogen Atom
47. De Broglie’s Matter Waves
48. Wave-Particle Duality
49. Introduction
50. Wave Functions
51. The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle
52. The Schrӧdinger Equation
53. The Quantum Particle in a Box
54. The Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
55. The Quantum Tunneling of Particles through Potential Barriers
56. Introduction
57. The Hydrogen Atom
58. Orbital Magnetic Dipole Moment of the Electron
59. Electron Spin
60. The Exclusion Principle and the Periodic Table
61. Atomic Spectra and X-rays
62. Lasers
63. Introduction
64. Types of Molecular Bonds
65. Molecular Spectra
66. Bonding in Crystalline Solids
67. Free Electron Model of Metals
68. Band Theory of Solids
69. Semiconductors and Doping
70. Semiconductor Devices
71. Superconductivity
72. Introduction
73. Properties of Nuclei
74. Nuclear Binding Energy
75. Radioactive Decay
76. Nuclear Reactions
77. Fission
78. Nuclear Fusion
79. Medical Applications and Biological Effects of Nuclear Radiation
80. Introduction
81. Introduction to Particle Physics
82. Particle Conservation Laws
83. Quarks
84. Particle Accelerators and Detectors
85. The Standard Model
86. The Big Bang
87. Evolution of the Early Universe
Units
Conversion Factors
Fundamental Constants
Astronomical Data
Mathematical Formulas
Chemistry
The Greek Alphabet
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