Publisher's Synopsis
This is the solutions manual for the Fluids, Waves and Optics textbook which was developed for the first-year calculus-based, introductory physics courses at the University of Alberta. This solutions manual contains the text of every end of chapter problem followed by a detailed, fully worked solution to each part of the problem. The questions and their solutions are grouped by the chapters in the Fluids, Waves and Optics textbook which are: Mathematics - Small angle approximations, complex numbers, complex exponentials, partial derivatives, experimental uncertainties. Elasticity - Stress, strain, moduli of elasticity, bulk stress, strain and modulus Fluid Statics - pressure, Pascal's law, measuring pressures, Archimedes' principle Fluid Dynamics - continuity equation, Bernoulli's equation, Torricelli's law, viscosity, Poiseuille's law, Stokes' law Simple Oscillations - simple harmonic motion, mass-spring systems, simple and compound pendulums Damped and Driven Oscillations - damped harmonic motion, damping ratio, driven oscillators, resonance Waves - types of waves, mathematical description of a wave, waves on a string, acoustic waves, wave power and intensity Wave Phenomena - principle of superposition, reflection at a boundary, interference, beats, standing waves, the relativistic and non-relativistic doppler effect, shock waves Optics - laws of reflection and refraction, spherical mirrors, thin lenses Optical Instruments - lensmaker's equation, compound microscope, simple telescope, spherical and chromatic aberrations Light Waves - Huyghens' principle, dispersion, polarization, thin film interference, diffraction, diffraction gratings Introduction to Quantum Mechanics - atomic spectra, blackbody spectrum, photoelectric effect, Bohr atom, de Broglie wavelength, Schrodinger equation
