College: The Berkeley course

THE BERKELEY PHYSICS COURSE is intended to present introductory physics to students in engineering and the physical sciences in a new and fresh way, to give them the flavor of the way in which practicing physicists use the subject. It consists of five volumes (“Mechanics,“Electricity and Magnetism,” “Waves and Oscillations,” “Quantum Physics” and “Statistical Physics”) and a new laboratory manual. Since the course is designed to acquaint the student with the basic principles and ideas of the physics of today, it does not survey all of physics; rather it selects topics that characteristically illustrate the basic elements of physical reasoning. Consideration of the subjects common in present‐day physics has influenced the choice of many of these topics.