Richard P. Olenick is currently the chair of Department of Physics at University of Dallas. He was Associate Project Director of the PBS Series The Mechanical Universe and Beyond the Mechanical Universe, which accompanied this textbook and its successors. He has received numerous grants from the National Science Foundation and the US Department of Education for his work in physics education. His current project is C3P, which developed an inquiry-based curriculum for high school physics. In 1995, Dr Olenick was named Texas Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation and in 1997, he was named a Minnie Piper Steven Professor. In 2003, he became the Nancy Cain Marcus and Jeffrey A. Marcus Chair in Science and in 2005 he received the King Award from the University of Dallas, which is the highest honor the University can bestow on a faculty member.
Preface
31. Beyond the mechanical universe
32. Static electricity
33. The electric field
34. Potential and capacitance
35. Voltage, energy and force
36. The electric battery
37. Electric circuits
38. Magnetism
39. The magnetic field
40. Vector fields and hydrodynamics
41. Electromagnetic induction
42. Alternating currents
43. Maxwell's equations
44. Optics
45. The Michelson-Morley experiment
46. The Lorentz transformation
47. Velocity and time
48. Mass, momentum, energy
49. Atoms
50. Particles and waves
51. Atoms to quarks
52. The quantum mechanical universe
Appendix A. The international system of units
Appendix B. Conversion factors
Appendix C. The periodic table of the elements
Appendix D. Astronomical data
Appendix E. Physical constants
Index.
