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Prof. Masatsugu Sei Suzuki
Department of Physics, SUNY-Binghamton

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Lecture Notes of General Physics I and II Calculus Based

Chapter 1 Measurement
Chapter 2 Motion along a straight line
Chapter 3 Vectors
Chapter 4 Motion in two and three dimensions
Chapter 5 Force and motion -- I
Chapter 6 Force and motion -- II
Chapter 7 Kinetic energy and work
Chapter 8 Potential energy and conservation of energy
Chapter 9 Center of mass and linear momentum
Chapter 10 Rotation
Chapter 11 Rolling, torque, and angular momentum
Chapter 12 Equilibrium and elasticity
Chapter 13 Gravitation
Chapter 14 Fluids
Chapter 15 Oscillations
Chapter 16 Waves -- I
Chapter 17 Waves -- II
Chapter 18 Temperature, heat, and the first law of thermodynamics
Chapter 19 The kinetic theory of gases
Chapter 20 Entropy and the second law of thermodynamics
Chapter20:Supplement

Chapter 21 Electric charge
Chapter 21S Experimental demonstration on electrostatic phenomena
Chapter 22 Electric fields
Chapter 23 Gauss' law
Chapter 24 Electric potential
Chapter 24S Image charge method for sphere
Chapter 25 Capacitance
Chapter 25S Electric field and polarization vector in dielectrics
Chapter 26 Current and resistance
Chapter 26S Conductivity of metal - quantum concept
Chapter 27 Circuits
Chapter 28 Magnetic fields
Chapter 28S History of magnetism
Chapter 29 Magnetic fields due to currents
Chapter 29S B, M, and H for magnetic materials
Chapter 30 Induction and inductance
Chapter 31 Electromagnetic oscillations and alternating current
Chapter 32 Maxwell's equations; magnetism of matter
Chapter 33 Electromagnetic waves
Chapter 34 Images
Chapter 35 Interference
Chapter 36 Diffraction
Chapter 37 Relativity
Chapter 37:Supplement

Topics 1 Bar magnet
Topics 2 Physics of rainbow
Topics 3 Radiation from electric dipole moment
Topics 4 Minimum deviation of angle in prism (pdf)
Mathematica file1, file 2, file 3, file 4, file 5
Topics 5 Waves and oscillations
Topics 6 Coriolis force
Topics 7 Hodographic solution of the Kepler's problem
Topics 8 Understanding on van der Waals equation of state with the use of Mathematica

This is my lecture note on the Phys.131 (Fall, 2007, Fall, 2008) and Phys.132 (Spring, 2008, Spring, 2009) , which has been taught in State University of New York at Binghamton. This note is written mainly for facilitating my teaching of this course. Some topics may not be appropriate partly because of advanced mathematics used there.

In this course I use the textbook (Fundamentals of Physics, eighth edition, Halliday, Resnick, and Walker, John-Wiley and Sons, Inc., New York). The numbers of the chapters in my lecture notes are almost the same as those of the textbook. There are two Chapters as supplementary; Chapter 20S for the discussion of the entropy (which is the introduction of statistical mechanics, and Chapter 37S for the discussion of the special relativity of electricity and magnetism. These two chapters may not be appropriate because of advanced topics. In the class, Chapters 16 and 17 are taught between the Chapter 33 and 34.

In this class, we use the WileyPlus for the homework assignment. 12 problems are chosen as homeworks in each Chapter.

In lecture notes, I make many figures using Mathematica 7.0 and AppleWorks. I also use figures in the textbook of Halliday, Resnick, Walker, and Serway.

As references, I use many books including

C. Kittel, Mechanics, Berkley Physics Course-vol. 1 (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1973).
R.P. Feynman, R.B. Leighton, and M. Sands, The Feynman Lectures on Physics (Addison-Wesley Publishing Co, 1977)
D.G. Griffiths, Introduction to Electrodynamics (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 1999)
E.M. Purcel, Electricity and Magnetism, Berkley Physics Course-vol. 2 (McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, 1985).