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    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_B%3A_Electricity_Magnetism_and_Optics/B34%3A_Gausss_Law_Example
      We finished off the last chapter by using Gauss’s Law to find the electric field due to a point charge.
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Astronomy__Cosmology/Planetary_Photometry_(Tatum_and_Fairbairn)/zz%3A_Back_Matter/10%3A_Index
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_A%3A_Kinetics_Statics_and_Thermodynamics/03A%3A_Conservation_of_Mechanical_Energy_II%3A_Springs_Rotational_Kinetic_Energy
      A common mistake involving springs is using the length of a stretched spring when the amount of stretch is called for. Given the length of a stretched spring, you have to subtract off the length of th...A common mistake involving springs is using the length of a stretched spring when the amount of stretch is called for. Given the length of a stretched spring, you have to subtract off the length of that same spring when it is neither stretched nor compressed to get the amount of stretch.
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_A%3A_Kinetics_Statics_and_Thermodynamics/36A%3A_Heat%3A_Phase_Changes
      As mentioned in the preceding chapter, there are times when you bring a hot object into contact with a cooler sample, that heat flows from the hot object to the cooler sample, but the temperature of t...As mentioned in the preceding chapter, there are times when you bring a hot object into contact with a cooler sample, that heat flows from the hot object to the cooler sample, but the temperature of the cooler sample does not increase, even though no heat flows out of the cooler sample (e.g. into an even colder object).
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_B%3A_Electricity_Magnetism_and_Optics/B27%3A_Refraction_Dispersion_Internal_Reflection
      When we talked about thin film interference, we said that when light encounters a smooth interface between two transparent media, some of the light gets through, and some bounces off.
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_B%3A_Electricity_Magnetism_and_Optics/B22%3A_Huygenss_Principle_and_2-Slit_Interference
      Consider a professor standing in front of the room holding one end of a piece of rope that extends, except for sag, horizontally away from her in what we’ll call the forward direction.
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_A%3A_Kinetics_Statics_and_Thermodynamics/27A%3A_Oscillations%3A_Introduction_Mass_on_a_Spring
      When something goes back and forth we say it vibrates or oscillates. In many cases oscillations involve an object whose position as a function of time is well characterized by the sine or cosine funct...When something goes back and forth we say it vibrates or oscillates. In many cases oscillations involve an object whose position as a function of time is well characterized by the sine or cosine function of the product of a constant and elapsed time. Such motion is referred to as sinusoidal oscillation. It is also referred to as simple harmonic motion.
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_B%3A_Electricity_Magnetism_and_Optics/B03%3A_The_Electric_Field_Due_to_one_or_more_Point_Charges
      A charged particle (a.k.a. a point charge, a.k.a. a source charge) causes an electric field to exist in the region of space around itself. This is Coulomb’s Law for the Electric Field in conceptual fo...A charged particle (a.k.a. a point charge, a.k.a. a source charge) causes an electric field to exist in the region of space around itself. This is Coulomb’s Law for the Electric Field in conceptual form.
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_A%3A_Kinetics_Statics_and_Thermodynamics/37A%3A_The_First_Law_of_Thermodynamics
      We end this physics textbook as we began the physics part of it (Chapter 1 was a mathematics review), with a discussion of conservation of energy. Back in Chapter 2, the focus was on the conservation ...We end this physics textbook as we began the physics part of it (Chapter 1 was a mathematics review), with a discussion of conservation of energy. Back in Chapter 2, the focus was on the conservation of mechanical energy; here we focus our attention on thermal energy.
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_A%3A_Kinetics_Statics_and_Thermodynamics/05A%3A_Conservation_of_Angular_Momentum
      The angular momentum of an object is a measure of how difficult it is to stop that object from spinning. For an object rotating about a fixed axis, the angular momentum depends on how fast the object ...The angular momentum of an object is a measure of how difficult it is to stop that object from spinning. For an object rotating about a fixed axis, the angular momentum depends on how fast the object is spinning, and on the object's rotational inertia (also known as moment of inertia) with respect to that axis.
    • https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/University_Physics/Calculus-Based_Physics_(Schnick)/Volume_B%3A_Electricity_Magnetism_and_Optics/B07%3A_Equipotential_Surfaces_Conductors_and_Voltage
      Consider a region of space in which there exists an electric field. Focus your attention on a specific point in that electric field, call it point A.

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