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Light and Matter

Light and Matter

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This book covers the following topics: Scaling and estimation, Velocity and relative motion, Acceleration and free fall, Force and motion, Analysis of forces, Newton's laws in three dimensions, Vectors, Vectors and motion, Circular motion, Gravity, Conservation of energy, Simplifying the energy zoo, Work: the transfer of mechanical energy, Conservation of momentum, Conservation of angular momentum, Thermodynamics, Vibrations, Resonance, Free waves, Electricity and circuits, non mechanical universe, relativity and magnetism, Electromagnetism, General relativity, The ray model of light, Images by reflection, Images, quantitatively, Refraction, Wave optics and Rules of randomness.

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