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Color and Color Vision (m42487)
Maintainers: OpenStax College, OSC Physics Maintainer
Keywords: Color constancy, Hues, Retinexes, Retinex theory of color vision, Rods and cones, Simplified theory of color vision
Summary: Explain the simple theory of color vision. Outline the coloring properties of light sources. Describe the retinex theory of color vision.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 51.46%
Revised: 2012-06-20
Revisions: 4
Complexity and Chaos (m42694)
Maintainers: OSC Physics Maintainer, OpenStax College
Keywords: Chaos, Complexity
Summary: Explain complex systems. Discuss chaotic behavior of different systems.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 36.38%
Revised: 2012-05-11
Revisions: 2
Conduction (m42228)
Maintainers: OpenStax College, OSC Physics Maintainer
Keywords: Heat conduction, Insulation, Rate of conductive heat transfer, R factor, Thermal conductivity
Summary: Calculate thermal conductivity. Observe conduction of heat in collisions. Study thermal conductivities of common substances.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 50.49%
Revised: 2012-07-05
Revisions: 6
Conductors and Electric Fields in Static Equilibrium (m42317)
Maintainers: OpenStax College, OSC Physics Maintainer
Keywords: conductors, electric field, electrostatic equilibrium, Faraday cage, free charge, ionosphere, polarized
Summary: List the three properties of a conductor in electrostatic equilibrium. Explain the effect of an electric field on free charges in a conductor. Explain why no electric field may exist inside a conductor. Describe the electric field surrounding Earth. Explain what happens to an electric field applied to an irregular ... the car.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 77.17%
Revised: 2012-06-06
Revisions: 3
Conductors and Insulators (m42306)
Maintainers: OpenStax College, OSC Physics Maintainer
Keywords: Conductor, Electrostatic repulsion, Free electrons, Induction, Insulator, Polarization
Summary: Define conductor and insulator, explain the difference, and give examples of each. Describe three methods for charging an object. Explain what happens to an electric force as you move farther from the source. Define polarization.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 83.59%
Revised: 2012-06-20
Revisions: 4
Conservation of Energy (m42151)
Maintainers: OpenStax College, OSC Physics Maintainer
Keywords: chemical energy, efficiency, electrical energy, law of conservation of energy, nuclear energy, radiant energy, thermal energy
Summary: Explain the law of the conservation of energy. Describe some of the many forms of energy. Define efficiency of an energy conversion process as the fraction left as useful energy or work, rather than being transformed, for example, into thermal energy.
Subject: Mathematics and Statistics
Language: English
Popularity: 84.47%
Revised: 2012-07-05
Revisions: 5
Conservation of Momentum (m42162)
Maintainers: OSC Physics Maintainer, OpenStax College
Keywords: Center of mass, Collision, Conservation of momentum, Momentum
Summary: Describe the principle of conservation of momentum. Derive an expression for the conservation of momentum. Explain conservation of momentum with examples. Explain the principle of conservation of momentum as it relates to atomic and subatomic particles.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 54.20%
Revised: 2012-06-13
Revisions: 2
Conservative Forces and Potential Energy (m42149)
Maintainers: OpenStax College, OSC Physics Maintainer
Keywords: conservation of mechanical energy, conservative force, mechanical energy, potential energy, potential energy of a spring
Summary: Define conservative force, potential energy, and mechanical energy. Explain the potential energy of a spring in terms of its compression when Hooke’s law applies. Use the work-energy theorem to show how having only conservative forces implies conservation of mechanical energy.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 59.79%
Revised: 2012-07-05
Revisions: 4
Convection (m42229)
Maintainers: OpenStax College, OSC Physics Maintainer
Keywords: Condensation, Convection, Heat transfer, Thunderheads, Violent storms, Wind chill
Summary: Discuss the method of heat transfer by convection.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 46.28%
Revised: 2012-07-05
Revisions: 5
Cosmology and Particle Physics (m42686)
Maintainers: OpenStax College, OSC Physics Maintainer
Keywords: Big Bang, Cosmic microwave background, Cosmological red shift, Cosmology, Electroweak epoch, GUT epoch, Hubble constant, Inflationary scenario, Spontaneous symmetry breaking, Superforce, TOE epoch
Summary: Discuss the expansion of the universe. Explain the Big Bang.
Subject: Science and Technology
Language: English
Popularity: 64.87%
Revised: 2012-07-05
Revisions: 6
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