Lectures on Physics
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Preface
Newtonian Physics
Conservation Laws
Conservation of Energy
Simplifying the Energy Zoo
Work: The Transfer of
Mechanical Energy
Conservation of Momentum
Conservation of Angular
Momentum
Thermodynamics
Introduction
Pressure and Temperature
Pressure
Thermal Equilibrium
Thermal Expansion
Microscopic Description of
an Ideal Gas
Efficiency and grades of energy
Heat engines
Entropy
Examples
Pressure in U.S. units
Pressure in U.S. and
metric units
Getting killed by a pool pump
Pressure of lava underneath
a volcano
Atmospheric pressure
Which temperature scale
to use
Volume related to
temperature
Pressure in a car tire
Earth’s senescence
A piston, a refrigerator, and
a space suit
Entropy is additive
Entropy and the
Carnot Engine
Entropy increases in
heat conduction
Entropy and non-Carnot
Engine
A book sliding to a stop
A refrigerator to
decrease entropy?
Maxwell’s daemon
Entropy and evolution
The heat death of
the universe
Hawking radiation
Homework Problems
Exercises
Vibration and Waves
Electricity
Optics
Modern Physics
Appendix
Last Update: 2011-03-23