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ELECTRIC CHARGE AND ELECTRIC FIELD: Conductors, Insulators, and Induced Charges. Coulomb’s Law. Electric Field and Electric Forces. Electric Field Lines. Electric Dipoles. GAUSS’S LAW: Charge and Electric Flux, Gauss’s Law, Applications of Gauss’s Law, Charges on Conductors. ELECTRIC POTENTIAL: Electric Potential Energy, Electric Potential, Equipotential Surfaces, Potential Gradient. CAPACITANCE AND DIELECTRICS: Capacitors and Capacitance, Capacitors in Series and Parallel , Energy Storage in Capacitors and Electric-Field Energy, Dielectrics, Molecular Model of Induced Charge, Gauss’s Law in Dielectrics. CURRENT, RESISTANCE AND ELECTROMOTIVE FORCE: Current, Resistivity, Resistance, Electromotive Force and Circuits, Energy and Power in Electric Circuits, Theory of Metallic Conduction. DIRECT CURRENT CIRCUITS: Resistors in Series and Parallel, Kirchhoff’s Rules, R-C Circuits. MAGNETIC FIELD AND MAGNETIC FORCES: Magnetism, Magnetic Field, Magnetic Field Lines and Magnetic Flux , Motion of Charged Particles in a Magnetic Field, Applications of Motion of Charged Particles, Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Conductor, Force and Torque on a Current Loop, Direct-Current Motor, Hall Effect. SOURCES OF MAGNETIC FIELD: Magnetic Field of a Moving Charge, Magnetic Field of a Current Element , Magnetic Field of a Straight Current-Carrying Conductor, Force Between Parallel Conductors, Magnetic Field of a Circular Current Loop, Ampere’s Law, Applications of Ampere’s Law, Magnetic Materials. ELECTROMAGNETIC INDUCTION: Induction Experiments, Faraday’s Law, Lenz’s Law, Motional Electromotive Force, Induced Electric Fields, Eddy Currents, Displacement Current and Maxwell’s Equations. INDUCTANCE: Mutual Inductance, Self-Inductance and Inductors, Magnetic-Field Energy, R-L Circuit, L-C Circuit, L-R-C Series Circuit. ALTERNATING CURRENT: Phasors and Alternating Current, Resistance and Reactance, Power in Alternating-Current Circuits, Resonance in Alternating-Current Circuits, Transformers. ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES: Maxwell’s Equations Electromagnetic Waves, Plane Electromagnetic Waves and the Speed of Light, Sinusoidal Electromagnetic Waves, Energy and Momentum in Electromagnetic Waves, Standing Electromagnetic Waves. LIGHT WAVES BEHAVING AS PARTICLES: Light Absorbed as Photons, Photoelectric Effect, Light Emitted as Photons, X-Ray Production, Light Scattered as Photons, Wave–Particle Duality, Probability and Uncertainty. PARTICLES BEHAVING AS WAVES: Electron Waves, Nuclear Atom and Atomic Spectra, Energy Levels and the Bohr Model of the Atom. QUANTUM MECHANICS AND WAVE FUNCTIONS: Wave Functions and the One-Dimensional Schrödinger Equation, Particle in a Box, Potential Wells Potential Barriers and Tunneling, The Harmonic Oscillator, Measurement in Quantum Mechanics.

1) University Physics with modern Physics H.D. Young, R.H. Freedman Pearson Editor 14th edition 2) Physics Volume II David Halliday, Robert Resnick, Kenneth S. Krane Wiley Editor

Electric charges, Coulomb’s law, continuous charge distribution, the electric field, the electric field o point charges, electric field of continuous charge distributions, electric field lines, the dipole, field generated by a dipole, the flux of the electric field, Gauss law, applications of the gauss law, electric potential energy, electric potential, calculating field and potential, electrical properties of materials, Ohm’s law: a microscopic view, capacitance, calculating the capacitance, capacitors in series and parallel, capacitors with dielectric, electric current, resistance, resistors in series and parallel, charge and discharge of a capacitor, the magnetic field, the magnetic force on a moving charge, the Hall effect, magnetic force on a current carrying wire, the torque on current loop, the magnetic field due to a moving charge, the magnetic field of a current, the solenoid, Ampere’s law, faraday’s law of induction, Lenz’ law, motional emf, inductance, magnetic properties of materials, magnetization, paramagnetism, diamagnetism, ferromagnetism, Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic waves, energy transport and the Poynting vector, the electromagnetic spectrum, introducing the photon concept, photoelectric effect. Particles as waves: the de Broglie relation. The Schrödinger equation: time dependent and time independent. The free particle. Quantum well and tunnel effect. The Fermi gas. Origin of bands in metals.

Physics, Volume 2 (fifth edition) Halliday, Resnick, Krane (Wiley)