
The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II
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- Intro
- Front matter
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Introduction to the Electronic Editions
- About the Authors
- Preface to the New Millenium Edition
- Feynman's Preface
- Foreword
- Contents
- 1. Electromagnetism
- 1-1. Electrical forces
- 1-2. Electric and magnetic fields
- 1-3. Characteristics of vector fields
- 1-4. The laws of electromagnetism
- 1-5. What are the fields?
- 1-6. Electromagnetism in science and technology
- 2. Differential Calculus of Vector Fields
- 2-1. Understanding physics
- 2-2. Scalar and vector fields-T and h
- 2-3. Derivatives of fields-the gradient
- 2-4. The operator ?
- 2-5. Operations with ?
- 2-6. The differential equation of heat flow
- 2-7. Second derivatives of vector fields
- 2-8. Pitfalls
- 3. Vector Integral Calculus
- 3-1. Vector integrals
- the line integral of ??
- 3-2. The flux of a vector field
- 3-3. The flux from a cube
- Gauss' theorem
- 3-4. Heat conduction
- the diffusion equation
- 3-5. The circulation of a vector field
- 3-6. The circulation around a square
- Stokes' theorem
- 3-7. Curl-free and divergence-free fields
- 3-8. Summary
- 4. Electrostatics
- 4-1. Statics
- 4-2. Coulomb's law
- superposition
- 4-3. Electric potential
- 4-4. E=-??
- 4-5. The flux of E
- 4-6. Gauss' law
- the divergence of E
- 4-7. Field of a sphere of charge
- 4-8. Field lines
- equipotential surfaces
- 5. Application of Gauss' Law
- 5-1. Electrostatics is Gauss' law plus .
- 5-2. Equilibrium in an electrostatic field
- 5-3. Equilibrium with conductors
- 5-4. Stability of atoms
- 5-5. The field of a line charge
- 5-6. A sheet of charge
- two sheets
- 5-7. A sphere of charge
- a spherical shell
- 5-8. Is the field of a point charge exactly 1/r2?
- 5-9. The fields of a conductor
- 5-10. The field in a cavity of a conductor
- 6. The Electric Field in Various Circumstances
- 6-1. Equations of the electrostatic potential
- 6-2. The electric dipole
- 6-3. Remarks on vector equations
- 6-4. The dipole potential as a gradient
- 6-5. The dipole approximation for an arbitrary distribution
- 6-6. The fields of charged conductors
- 6-7. The method of images
- 6-8. A point charge near a conducting plane
- 6-9. A point charge near a conducting sphere
- 6-10. Condensers
- parallel plates
- 6-11. High-voltage breakdown
- 6-12. The field-emission microscope
- 7. The Electric Field in Various Circumstances (Continued)
- 7-1. Methods for finding the electrostatic field
- 7-2. Two-dimensional fields
- functions of the complex variable
- 7-3. Plasma oscillations
- 7-4. Colloidal particles in an electrolyte
- 7-5. The electrostatic field of a grid
- 8. Electrostatic Energy
- 8-1. The electrostatic energy of charges. A uniform sphere
- 8-2. The energy of a condenser. Forces on charged conductors
- 8-3. The electrostatic energy of an ionic crystal
- 8-4. Electrostatic energy in nuclei
- 8-5. Energy in the electrostatic field
- 8-6. The energy of a point charge
- 9. Electricity in the Atmosphere
- 9-1. The electric potential gradient of the atmosphere
- 9-2. Electric currents in the atmosphere
- 9-3. Origin of the atmospheric currents
- 9-4. Thunderstorms
- 9-5. The mechanism of charge separation
- 9-6. Lightning
- 10. Dielectrics
- 10-1. The dielectric constant
- 10-2. The polarization vector P
- 10-3. Polarization charges
- 10-4. The electrostatic equations with dielectrics
- 10-5. Fields and forces with dielectrics
- 11. Inside Dielectrics
- 11-1. Molecular dipoles
- 11-2. Electronic polarization
- 11-3. Polar molecules
- orientation polarization
- 11-4. Electric fields in cavities of a dielectric
- 11-5. The dielectric constant of liquids
- the Clausius-Mossotti equation
- 11-6. Solid dielectrics
- 11-7. Ferroelectricity
- BaTiO3
- 12. Electrostatic Analogs
- 12-1. The same equations have the same solutions
- 12-2. The flow of heat
- a point source near an infinite plane boundary
- 12-3. The stretched membrane
- 12-4. The diffusion of neutrons
- a uniform spherical source in a homogeneous medium
- 12-5. Irrotational fluid flow
- the flow past a sphere
- 12-6. Illumination
- the uniform lighting of a plane
- 12-7. The "underlying unity" of nature
- 13. Magnetostatics
- 13-1. The magnetic field
- 13-2. Electric current
- the conservation of charge
- 13-3. The magnetic force on a current
- 13-4. The magnetic field of steady currents
- Ampère's law
- 13-5. The magnetic field of a straight wire and of a solenoid
- atomic currents
- 13-6. The relativity of magnetic and electric fields
- 13-7. The transformation of currents and charges
- 13-8. Superposition
- the right-hand rule
- 14. The Magnetic Field in Various Situations
- 14-1. The vector potential
- 14-2. The vector potential of known currents
- 14-3. A straight wire
- 14-4. A long solenoid
- 14-5. The field of a small loop
- the magnetic dipole
- 14-6. The vector potential of a circuit
- 14-7. The law of Biot and Savart
- 15. The Vector Potential
- 15-1. The forces on a current loop
- energy of a dipole
- 15-2. Mechanical and electrical energies
- 15-3. The energy of steady currents
- 15-4. B versus A
- 15-5. The vector potential and quantum mechanics
- 15-6. What is true for statics is false for dynamics
- 16. Induced Currents
- 16-1. Motors and generators
- 16-2. Transformers and inductances
- 16-3. Forces on induced currents
- 16-4. Electrical technology
- 17. The Laws of Induction
- 17-1. The physics of induction
- 17-2. Exceptions to the "flux rule"
- 17-3. Particle acceleration by an induced electric field
- the betatron
- 17-4. A paradox
- 17-5. Alternating-current generator
- 17-6. Mutual inductance
- 17-7. Self-inductance
- 17-8. Inductance and magnetic energy
- 18. The Maxwell Equations
- 18-1. Maxwell's equations
- 18-2. How the new term works
- 18-3. All of classical physics
- 18-4. A travelling field
- 18-5. The speed of light
- 18-6. Solving Maxwell's equations
- the potentials and the wave equation
- 19. The Principle of Least Action
- 19-1. A special lecture-almost verbatim
- 19-2. A note added after the lecture
- 20. Solutions of Maxwell's Equations in Free Space
- 20-1. Waves in free space
- plane waves
- 20-2. Three-dimensional waves
- 20-3. Scientific imagination
- 20-4. Spherical waves
- 21. Solutions of Maxwell's Equations with Currents and Charges
- 21-1. Light and electromagnetic waves
- 21-2. Spherical waves from a point source
- 21-3. The general solution of Maxwell's equations
- 21-4. The fields of an oscillating dipole
- 21-5. The potentials of a moving charge
- the general solution of Liénard and Wiechert
- 21-6. The potentials for a charge moving with constant velocity
- the Lorentz formula
- 22. AC Circuits
- 22-1. Impedances
- 22-2. Generators
- 22-3. Networks of ideal elements
- Kirchhoff's rules
- 22-4. Equivalent circuits
- 22-5. Energy
- 22-6. A ladder network
- 22-7. Filters
- 22-8. Other circuit elements
- 23. Cavity Resonators
- 23-1. Real circuit elements
- 23-2. A capacitor at high frequencies
- 23-3. A resonant cavity
- 23-4. Cavity modes
- 23-5. Cavities and resonant circuits
- 24. Waveguides
- 24-1. The transmission line
- 24-2. The rectangular waveguide
- 24-3. The cutoff frequency
- 24-4. The speed of the guided waves
- 24-5. Observing guided waves
- 24-6. Waveguide plumbing
- 24-7. Waveguide modes
- 24-8. Another way of looking at the guided waves
- 25. Electrodynamics in Relativistic Notation
- 25-1. Four-vectors
- 25-2. The scalar product
- 25-3. The four-dimensional gradient
- 25-4. Electrodynamics in four-dimensional notation
- 25-5. The four-potential of a moving charge
- 25-6. The invariance of the equations of electrodynamics
- 26. Lorentz Transformations of the Fields
- 26-1. The four-potential of a moving charge
- 26-2. The fields of a point charge with a constant velocity
- 26-3. Relativistic transformation of the fields
- 26-4. The equations of motion in relativistic notation
- 27. Field Energy and Field Momentum
- 27-1. Local conservation
- 27-2. Energy conservation and electromagnetism
- 27-3. Energy density and energy flow in the electromagnetic field
- 27-4. The ambiguity of the field energy
- 27-5. Examples of energy flow
- 27-6. Field momentum
- 28. Electromagnetic Mass
- 28-1. The field energy of a point charge
- 28-2. The field momentum of a moving charge
- 28-3. Electromagnetic mass
- 28-4. The force of an electron on itself
- 28-5. Attempts to modify the Maxwell theory
- 28-6. The nuclear force field
- 29. The Motion of Charges in Electric and Magnetic Fields
- 29-1. Motion in a uniform electric or magnetic field
- 29-2. Momentum analysis
- 29-3. An electrostatic lens
- 29-4. A magnetic lens
- 29-5. The electron microscope
- 29-6. Accelerator guide fields
- 29-7. Alternating-gradient focusing
- 29-8. Motion in crossed electric and magnetic fields
- 30. The Internal Geometry of Crystals
- 30-1. The internal geometry of crystals
- 30-2. Chemical bonds in crystals
- 30-3. The growth of crystals
- 30-4. Crystal lattices
- 30-5. Symmetries in two dimensions
- 30-6. Symmetries in three dimensions
- 30-7. The strength of metals
- 30-8. Dislocations and crystal growth
- 30-9. The Bragg-Nye crystal model
- 31. Tensors
- 31-1. The tensor of polarizability
- 31-2. Transforming the tensor components
- 31-3. The energy ellipsoid
- 31-4. Other tensors
- the tensor of inertia
- 31-5. The cross product
- 31-6. The tensor of stress
- 31-7. Tensors of higher rank
- 31-8. The four-tensor of electromagnetic momentum
- 32. Refractive Index of Dense Materials
- 32-1. Polarization of matter
- 32-2. Maxwell's equations in a dielectric
- 32-3. Waves in a dielectric
- 32-4. The complex index of refraction
- 32-5. The index of a mixture
- 32-6. Waves in metals
- 32-7. Low-frequency and high-frequency approximations
- the skin depth and the plasma frequency
- 33. Reflection from Surfaces
- 33-1. Reflection and refraction of light
- 33-2. Waves in dense materials
- 33-3. The boundary conditions
- 33-4. The reflected and transmitted waves
- 33-5. Reflection from metals
- 33-6. Total internal reflection
- 34. The Magnetism of Matter
- 34-1. Diamagnetism and paramagnetism
- 34-2. Magnetic moments and angular momentum
- 34-3. The precession of atomic magnets
- 34-4. Diamagnetism
- 34-5. Larmor's theorem
- 34-6. Classical physics gives neither diamagnetism nor paramagnetism
- 34-7. Angular momentum in quantum mechanics
- 34-8. The magnetic energy of atoms
- 35. Paramagnetism and Magnetic Resonance
- 35-1. Quantized magnetic states
- 35-2. The Stern-Gerlach experiment
- 35-3. The Rabi molecular-beam method
- 35-4. The paramagnetism of bulk materials
- 35-5. Cooling by adiabatic demagnetization
- 35-6. Nuclear magnetic resonance
- 36. Ferromagnetism
- 36-1. Magnetization currents
- 36-2. The field H
- 36-3. The magnetization curve
- 36-4. Iron-core inductances
- 36-5. Electromagnets
- 36-6. Spontaneous magnetization
- 37. Magnetic Materials
- 37-1. Understanding ferromagnetism
- 37-2. Thermodynamic properties
- 37-3. The hysteresis curve
- 37-4. Ferromagnetic materials
- 37-5. Extraordinary magnetic materials
- 38. Elasticity
- 38-1. Hooke's law
- 38-2. Uniform strains
- 38-3. The torsion bar
- shear waves
- 38-4. The bent beam
- 38-5. Buckling
- 39. Elastic Materials
- 39-1. The tensor of strain
- 39-2. The tensor of elasticity
- 39-3. The motions in an elastic body
- 39-4. Nonelastic behavior
- 39-5. Calculating the elastic constants
- 40. The Flow of Dry Water
- 40-1. Hydrostatics
- 40-2. The equations of motion
- 40-3. Steady flow-Bernoulli's theorem
- 40-4. Circulation
- 40-5. Vortex lines
- 41. The Flow of Wet Water
- 41-1. Viscosity
- 41-2. Viscous flow
- 41-3. The Reynolds number
- 41-4. Flow past a circular cylinder
- 41-5. The limit of zero viscosity
- 41-6. Couette flow
- 42. Curved Space
- 42-1. Curved spaces with two dimensions
- 42-2. Curvature in three-dimensional space
- 42-3. Our space is curved
- 42-4. Geometry in space-time
- 42-5. Gravity and the principle of equivalence
- 42-6. The speed of clocks in a gravitational field
- 42-7. The curvature of space-time
- 42-8. Motion in curved space-time
- 42-9. Einstein's theory of gravitation
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