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Basic Concepts
THIS CHAPTER COVERS…
The basic concepts of physics that are frequently referred to in modern physics and needed for the understanding of the articles in the forthcoming chapters.
The definitions of electric charge, electric forces and fields.
The topics like Blackbody radiation, Planck's radiation formula, energy pressure relation in molecular model of gas, Maxwell's velocity distribution, Boltzmann's distribution, law of equipartition of energy, Maxwell's electromagnetic equations, size of atom and atomic radii, operators in quantum mechanics, timedependent Schrödinger's equation, free particle wave function, barrier penetration, Mole-Avogadro number and the electromagnetic wave spectrum.
1.1 ELECTRIC CHARGE
The phenomenon ...
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