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# CONTENTS

"All science is either physics or stamp collecting"
Ernest Rutherford

- Classical Electromagnetism
  - Electricity
    - Electric Charge
    - Structure of Matter
    - Coulomb's Law
    - Electric Field
    - Electric Dipole Field
    - Electric Field due to Continuous Charge Distributions
    - Motion of a Point Charge in an Electric Field
    - Electric Dipole in External Field
    - Gauss' Law
    - Gauss and Conductors
    - Quantitative use of Gauss Law
    - Electric Potential
    - Dipole Electric Potential
    - Determining "E from V"
    - Electric Potential Energy
    - Capacitors
    - Dielectric Materials
    - Conductors and Insulators
    - Electric Current, Resistance and Power
    - Electric Circuits
    - Series and Parallel
    - Kirchhoff's Laws
    - RC Circuits
  - Magnetism
  - Introduction
  - Magnetic Force on Charges
  - Magnetic Forces on Currents
  - Magnetic Dipoles
  - Motion of Charged Particles in Magnetic and Electric Fields
  - Biot-Savart Law
  - Ampere's Law
  - Force Between Two Parallel Wires: Ampere Definition
  - Faraday's Law of Induction
  - Mutual Inductance
  - Self Inductance
  - LR Circuits
  - Magnetic Energy
  - Magnetic Monopoles and "Gauss's Law for Magnetism"
  - Magnetic Properties of Matter
  - Displacement Current
  - Maxwell's Equations
  - Electromagnetic Oscillations
  - LC Circuits
  - LCR Circuits
  - Alternating Current
- Light and Optics

- Electromagnetic Waves
- Polarisation
- Geometric Optics

- Reflection
- Refraction

- Apparent Depth
- Total Internal Reflection

- Brewster's Law
- Dispersion
- Spherrical Mirrors
- Thin Lenses

- Wave (Physical) Optics

- Double Slit Interference
- Interference from Thin Films
- Single Slit Difraction
- Double Slit Diffraction/Interference
- Multiple Slit Diffraction/Interference - Diffraction Gratings

"Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not"
Edward Teller

Dr. C. L. Davis
Physics Department
University of Louisville
email: c.l.davis@louisville.edu

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