About the Authors 1 Introduction 2 Kinematics 3 Newton’s laws 4 Energy and momentum 5 Circular and rotational motion 6 Basic Optics 7 The Right-hand Rule 8 Electric fields and electric potential 9 Magnetic Fields 10 Circuits 11 Modern physics 12 General problem-solving tips
Joshua F Whitney and Heather M Whitney have both taught at
Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL in a variety of roles in the
Department of Physics. Joshua is also an amateur bodybuilder and
Megaman enthusiast. He completed his PhD in Physics at the
University of Tennessee, working in theoretical particle physics.
Since then, he has spent considerable time teaching introductory
and upper level physics classes and labs.
Heather is also an amateur gardener and cook, and fitness protegé
of Joshua. She completed her PhD in Physics at Vanderbilt
University, doing research at the Vanderbilt University Institute
for Imaging Science. In addition to teaching physics, she works
with undergraduate students on research projects in medical
physics.
This handbook is intended mainly for students learning introductory
physics or electromagnetics. It is essentially a guidebook for
helping students understand and reinforce the basic concepts in
physics and engineering. The authors provide examples and
explanations for many fundamentals concepts. What makes this book
so valuable is that the authors have clearly and carefully written
many useful tips and explanations for understanding basic concepts
in physics that give students an advantage in not only lest taking
but in real understanding. In addition to explaining concepts, many
of the tips are for ensuring the calculations are performed
correctly.
John J Shea, IEEE Electrical Insulation magazine, September-October
2022
*John J. Shea*
Whitney & Whitney present not a textbook, per se, but rather a
generic companion to one. Their contribution to introductory
undergraduate Physics lies in a text that helps students to
understand, and to derive maximal benefit from, the mathematics
underlying standard course texts. As such, it is very valuable to
those studying elementary Physics courses or beginning their
tertiary education in Physics, but is intelligible and accessible
even to inquisitive and eager students in secondary school, keen to
‘dip their toes’ into more advanced material. The array of rules of
thumb, insights and interpretations that inform physicists’
approach to their discipline are well represented. Indeed, the
couple use the differences in their own approaches to problems to
illustrate different views and ways of thinking.
Jack Reid, Physics Contemporary, 28 Jun 2022.
*Physics Contemporary*
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