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Physics II HD
Ultimately, the plan is for this app to cover the Physics that is included in the second semester of a typical introductory college physics course (Physics I HD is a companion app with the first-semester material). It is also appropriate for high school physics. The app will essentially be an interactive Physics textbook. In addition to standard textbook material, the app also has simulations and animations, as well as movies.
Version 1.6 includes chapters 16, 17, 18, 20, 21, 23, and 25 of the planned 14 chapters (these chapters will be numbered from 16-29, following on from Physics I). Chapter 16 covers electric charge, going through the basic model we use for charge, Coulomb's law, and electric field. The emphasis is on the concepts, but there are also over 60 end-of-chapter exercises included.
Chapter 17 covers electric potential energy and electric potential. As with chapter 16, each section of chapter 17 has a simulation or an animation, and there are approximately 60 end-of-chapter exercises.
Chapter 18 covers Direct Current (DC) Circuits. This is a relatively large chapter, with 10 sections.
Chapter 20 covers electromagnetic induction (this is how most electricity is generated). The chapter discusses Faraday's law, Lenz's law (including a pictorial method for doing Lenz's law), motional emf, eddy currents, electric generators, and transformers.
Chapter 21 covers waves and sound. There are animations of transverse and longitudinal waves, Doppler effect situations, as well as standing waves.
Chapter 23 deals with the reflection of light and the formation of images by spherical mirrors. Chapter 23 includes interactive ray diagrams for both convex and concave mirrors.
Chapter 25 covers interference in two dimensions, diffraction, as well as thin-film interference.
As more chapters are added, the cost of the app will rise (at the rate of about $1 per chapter). People who buy an early version of the app will get all the later chapters for free, as those chapters will come with the updates.
What's new
This version fixes the problem in chapter 25, in which the double-source interference simulation ran very slowly.
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- Last changed:
- May 07, 2012
- Category:
- Education
- Developer:
- Andrew Duffy
- Version:
- 1.6.1
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- Size:
- 14.1 MB
