Physics for beginners

... by Matthew Raspanti

00-PREFACE..(pdf) 01-INTRODUCTION..(pdf) 02-HEAVENLY MOTIONS..(pdf) 03-LAWS OF MOTION ..(pdf) 04-ENERGY ..(pdf) 05-ATOMS AND MOLECULES ..(pdf) 06-PARTICLES IN MOTION ..(pdf) 07-WAVES ..(pdf) 08-LIGHT ..(pdf) 09-ELECTROMAGNETISM ..(pdf) 10-A PUZZLING INCONSISTENCY ..(pdf)

11-THE ELUSIVE ETHER ..(pdf) 12-SPECIAL RELATIVITY ..(pdf) 13-GENERAL RELATIVITY ..(pdf) 14-INSIDE THE ATOM ..(pdf) 15-THE QUANTUM LEAP ..(pdf) 16-QUANTUM MECHANICS ..(pdf) 17-QUANTUM INTERPRETATIONS ..(pdf) 18-FUNDAMENTAL PARTICLES AND FORCES ..(pdf) 19-A COSMIC PERSPECTIVE ..(pdf) 20-POSTSCRIPT REFERENCES INDEX NOTES..(pdf) Introduction by Guy Vandegrift

Images

Shows differential for integrating Biot-Savart Law

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Electromagnetic momentum archery analogy

The first four terms of the Fourier series of a square wave, $\psi (x)={\frac {4}{\pi }}\sin(\pi x)$ $+{\frac {4}{3\pi }}\sin(3\pi x)$ $+{\frac {4}{5\pi }}\sin(5\pi x)$ $+{\frac {4}{7\pi }}\sin(7\pi x)+\ldots$$=\sum _{{\text{odd }}n=1}^{\infty }{\frac {4}{n\pi }}\sin(n\pi x)$.

Figure for calculating wave equation for transverse string waves

Five fair coins to illustrate the additive property of Shannon's information entropy

Shannon's entropy for unfair coin

Establishes that 3 items have 3!=6 permutations.

5 choose 3 versus permutation of ordered set of five objects.

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