Six Ideas That Shaped Physics, 3/e Unit E

Contents E1. Electric Fields

E2. Charge Distributions
E3. Electric Potential
Unit C E4. Static Equilibrium
C1. The Art of Model Building
E5. Current (and flux)
C2. Particles and Interactions
E6. Dynamic Equilibrium
C3. Vectors
E7. Analyzing Circuits (optional)
C4. Systems and Frames
E8. Magnetic Fields
C5. Conservation of Momentum
E9. Currents Respond to Magnetic Fields
C6. Conservation of Angular Momentum
E10. Currents Create Magnetic Fields
C7. More about Angular Momentum (optional)
E11. The Electromagnetic Field
C8. Conservation of Energy
E12. Gauss’s Law
C9. Potential Energy Graphs
E13. Ampere’s Law
C10. Work
E14. Integral Forms (optional)
C11. Rotational Energy
E15. Maxwell’s Equations
C12. Thermal Energy
E16. Faraday’s Law (optional)
C13. Other Forms of Internal Energy
E17. Induction (optional)
C14. Collisions (optional)
E18. Electromagnetic Waves
CA. (Appendix) The Standard Model
EA. (Appendix) The Electromagnetic Transformation Law
EB. (Appendix) Radiation from an Accelerating Particle
Unit N
N1. Newton’s Laws Unit Q
N2. Forces from Motion
Q1. Wave Models
N3. Motion from Forces
Q2. Standing Waves and Resonance
N4. Statics
Q3. Interference and Diffraction
N5. Linearly Constrained Motion
Q4. The Particle Nature of Light
N6. Coupled Objects
Q5. The Wave Nature of Particles
N7. Circularly Constrained Motion
Q6. Spin
N8. Noninertial Frames
Q7. The Rules of Quantum Mechanics
N9. Projectile Motion
Q8. Quantum Weirdness (optional)
N10. Oscillatory Motion
Q9. The Wavefunction
N11. Kepler’s Laws
Q10. Simple Quantum Models
N12. Orbits and Conservation Laws (optional)
Q11. Spectra (includes semiconductors)
NA. (Appendix) Differential Calculus
Q12. The Schrodinger Equation (optional)
NB. (Appendix) Integral Calculus
Q13. Introduction to Nuclei
Q14. Nuclear Stability
Unit R Q15. Nuclear Technology (optional)
R1. The Principle of Relativity QA. (Appendix) Complex Numbers
R2. Coordinate Time
R3. The Spacetime Interval Unit T
R4. Proper Time
T1. Temperature
R5. Coordinate Transformations
T2. Macrostates and Microstates
R6. Lorentz Contraction
T3. Entropy and Temperature
R7. The Cosmic Speed Limit
T4. The Boltzmann Factor
R8. Four-Momentum
T5. The Ideal Gas
R9. Conservation of Four-Momentum
T6. Distributions (optional)
RA. (Appendix) Converting Equations to SI Units
T7. Gas Processes
RB. (Appendix) The Relativistic Doppler Effect
T8. Calculating Entropy Changes
T9. Heat Engines
T10. The Physics of Climate Change*
(Underlined chapters represent possible early unit
ending points that won’t affect other units.)
 *Can be taught any time after unit C.