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| Electromagnetic Waves | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Maxwell's Prediction of Electromagnetism | |
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| The Generation of Electromagnetic Waves | |
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| Describing Electromagnetic Wave Properties Mathematically | |
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| Transporting Energy with Electromagnetic Waves | |
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| Radiation Pressure | |
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| Polarization | |
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| Maxwell's Rainbow | |
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| Images | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Reflection and Refraction | |
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| Total Internal Reflection | |
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| Polarization by Reflection | |
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| Two Types of Image | |
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| Plane Mirrors | |
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| Spherical Mirrors | |
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| Images from Spherical Mirrors | |
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| Spherical Refracting Surfaces | |
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| Thin Lenses | |
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| Optical Instruments | |
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| Three Proofs | |
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| Interference | |
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| Interference | |
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| Light as a Wave | |
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| Diffraction | |
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| Young's Interference Experiment | |
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| Coherence | |
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| Intensity in Double-Slit Interference | |
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| Interference from Thin Films | |
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| Michelson's Interferometer | |
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| Diffraction | |
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| Diffraction and The Wave Theory of Light | |
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| Diffraction by a Single Slit: Locating the Minima | |
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| Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction, Qualitatively | |
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| Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction, Quantitatively | |
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| Diffraction by a Circular Aperture | |
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| Diffraction by a Double Slit | |
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| Diffraction Gratings | |
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| Gratings: Dispersion and Resolving Power | |
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| X-Ray Diffraction | |
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| Special Relativity | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Origins of Special Relativity | |
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| The Principle of Relativity | |
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| Locating Events with an Intelligent Observer | |
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| Laboratory and Rocket Latticeworks of Clocks | |
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| Time Stretching | |
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| The Metric Equation | |
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| Cause and Effect | |
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| Relativity of Simultaneity | |
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| Momentum and Energy | |
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| The Lorentz Transformation | |
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| Lorentiz Contraction | |
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| Relativity of Velocities | |
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| Doppler Shift | |
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| The International System of Units (SI) | |
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| Some Fundamental Constants of Physics | |
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| Some Astronomical Data | |
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| Conversion Factors | |
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| Mathematical Formulas | |
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| Properties of Common Elements | |
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| Periodic Table of the Elements | |
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| Answers to Reading Exercises and Odd-Numbered Problems | |
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| Photo Credits | |
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| Index | |