1st Edition
PHY 182: The Physical World
School: Miami University, Oxford (MU )
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Pages: 4How to perform calculations involving electricity and DC/RC circuits-The Basics of Circuits
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Pages: 2The history of magnetism, how it is produced, and how to calculate cross products
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Pages: 2Resistors in Series Circuits vs. Resistors in Parallel Circuits
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Pages: 2Resistivity, superconductors, and the difference between resistivity and resistance
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Pages: 2How nuclear fusion occurs on the sun and calculations involving current
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Pages: 2Description of capacitors and calculations with capacitance
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Pages: 2How to calculate potential difference when given electric field
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Pages: 2Electric potential and potential of a continuous charge
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Pages: 2A comparison of electric potential to gravitational potential and potential energy of dipoles
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Pages: 4Calculating electric force, field, and flux and understanding dipole moments
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Pages: 2More applications of Gauss's law
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Pages: 2A comparison of electric flux to fluid flow and an explanation of Gauss's Law
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Pages: 2How electric fields affect the movement of charges and the torque of electric dipoles
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Pages: 2Calculating electric fields for various geometric situations
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Pages: 2The causes of charge transfer and how to determine electric fields
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Pages: 2A historical background of the study of electricity, a description of charge, and how to calculate electric force
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Pages: 4Ideal gas law, thermodynamics, gas processes, specific heat, and entropy
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Pages: 2Descriptions of otto cycle, stirling engine, refrigerators, and the carnot cycle
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Pages: 2The definiton of thermal equilibrium, what is explained by the second law of thermodynamics, and the statistics of entropy
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Pages: 2How to calculate the heat capacities of monatomic and diatomic gases, how to calculate the speed of an individual molecule
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Pages: 2How the density and specific heat of water explain certain phenomenon; derivation of the kinetic theory of gases
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Pages: 2Specific heat of gases, adiabatic processes, and the three types of heat transfer
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Pages: 2Specific heat of gases and an example of a calorimetry problem