Wiley's Halliday / Resnick / Walker Physics for JEE (Main & Advanced), Vol II, 4ed, 2026

Preface

Acknowledgments

Note to the Student

A Chapter wise Comparative Analysis of JEE Advanced

(2014–2024) Questions with Focus Topics

22 Electric Charges and Fields

22.1 What is Physics?

22.2 Electric Charge

22.3 Coulomb’s Law

22.4 Charge is Quantized

22.5 Charge is Conserved

22.6 The Electric Field

22.7 Electric Field Lines

22.8 The Electric Field Due to a Point Charge

22.9 The Electric Field Due to an Electric Dipole

22.10 The Electric Field Due to a Line of Charge

(Continuous Charge Distribution)

22.11 The Electric Field Due to a Charged Disk

22.12 Electric Field Inside a Conductor

22.13 A Point Charge in an Electric Field

22.14 A Dipole in an Electric Field

22.15 Electrostatic Shielding

Review and Summary

Problems

Practice Questions

Answer Key

23 Gauss’ Law

23.1 What is Physics?

23.2 Electric Flux

23.3 Gauss’ Law

23.4 A Charged Isolated Conductor

23.5 Applying Gauss’ Law: Spherical Symmetry

23.6 Applying Gauss’ Law: Cylindrical Symmetry

23.7 Applying Gauss’ Law: Planar Symmetry

Review and Summary

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24 Electric Potential

24.1 What is Physics?

24.2 Electric Potential and Electric

Potential Energy

24.3 Equipotential Surfaces

24.4 Calculating the Potential from the Field

24.5 Potential Due to a Point Charge

24.6 Potential Due to a Group of Point

Charges

24.7 Potential Due to a Continuous Charge

Distribution

24.8 Calculating the Field from the Potential

24.9 Potential Due to an Electric Dipole

24.10 Electric Potential Energy of a System of

Charged Particles

24.11 Potential of a Charged Isolated Conductor

24.12 Earthing

24.13 Electrostatic Self-Energy

Review and Summary

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25 Capacitance

25.1 What is Physics?

25.2 Capacitance

25.3 Calculating the Capacitance

25.4 Capacitors in Parallel and in Series

25.5 Energy Stored in an Electric Field

25.6 Capacitor with a Dielectric

25.7 Dielectrics: An Atomic View

25.8 Dielectrics and Gauss’ Law

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26 Current and Resistance

26.1 What is Physics?

26.2 Electric Current

26.3 Current Density

26.4 Resistance and Resistivity

26.5 Ohm’s Law

26.6 A Microscopic View of Ohm’s Law

26.7 Power in Electric Circuits

26.8 Semiconductors

26.9 Superconductors (Optional)

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27 Circuits

27.1 What is Physics?

27.2 Work, Energy, and EMF

27.3 Calculating the Current in a Single-Loop

Circuit

27.4 Potential Difference Between

Two Points

27.5 Multiloop Circuits

27.6 Electricity-Related Instruments

27.7 RC Circuits

Review and Summary

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28 Magnetic Force

28.1 What is Physics?

28.2 What Produces a Magnetic Field?

28.3 The Definition of B

28.4 A Circulating Charged Particle

28.5 Cyclotrons

28.6 Crossed Fields: Discovery of the Electron

28.7 The Hall Effect

28.8 Magnetic Force on a Current-Carrying Wire

28.9 Torque on a Current Loop

28.10 The Magnetic Dipole Moment

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29 Magnetic Fields Due to Currents

29.1 What is Physics?

29.2 Calculating the Magnetic Field Due

to a Current

29.3 Magnetic Field of Moving Charged

Particles

29.4 Force Between Two Parallel Currents

29.5 Ampere’s Law

29.6 Solenoids and Toroids

29.7 Limitations of Ampere’s Law

29.8 A Note About the Frames of Reference

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30 Maxwell’s Equations; Magnetism of Matter

30.1 What is Physics?

30.2 Gauss’ Law for Magnetic Fields

30.3 Induced Magnetic Fields

30.4 Displacement Current

30.5 Magnets

30.6 Magnetism and Electrons

30.7 Diamagnetism

30.8 Paramagnetism

30.9 Ferromagnetism

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31 Electromagnetic Induction

31.1 What is Physics?

31.2 Gauss’ Law of Magnetic Fields

31.3 Two Experiments

31.4 Faraday’s Law of Induction

31.5 Lenz’s Law

31.6 Motional EMF

31.7 Induction and Energy Transfers

31.8 Induced Electric Fields

31.9 Inductors and Inductance

31.10 Self-Induction

31.11 RL Circuits

31.12 Energy Stored in a Magnetic Field

31.13 Mutual Induction

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32 Electromagnetic Oscillations

and Alternating Current

32.1 What is Physics?

32.2 LC Oscillations, Qualitatively

32.3 The Electrical–Mechanical Analogy

32.4 LC Oscillations, Quantitatively

32.5 Alternating Current

32.6 Three Simple Circuits

32.7 The Series RLC Circuit

32.8 Power in Alternating-Current Circuits

32.9 Transformers

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33 Electromagnetic Waves

33.1 What is Physics?

33.2 Maxwell’s Rainbow

33.3 The Traveling Electromagnetic Wave,

Qualitatively

33.4 The Traveling Electromagnetic Wave,

Quantitatively ix

33.5 Energy Transport and the Poynting Vector

33.6 Radiation Pressure

33.7 Polarization

33.8 Reflection and Refraction

33.9 Polarization by Reflection

33.10 Polarization by Scattering

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34 Geometrical Optics: Reflection

34.1 What is Physics?

34.2 Principle of Rectilinear Propagation of Light

34.3 Laws of Reflection

34.4 Formation of Image by a Mirror

34.5 Formation of Images by Spherical Mirrors

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35 Geometrical Optics: Refraction

35.1 What is Physics?

35.2 Snell’s Laws of Refraction

35.3 Total Internal Reflection

35.4 Spherical Refracting Surfaces

35.5 Thin Spherical Lenses

35.6 Lens Mirror Combination

35.7 Prism

35.8 Chromatic Dispersion

35.9 Optical Instruments

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36 Interference and Diffraction

36.1 What is Physics?

36.2 Light as a Wave

36.3 Diffraction

36.4 Young’s Interference Experiment

36.5 Coherence

36.6 Intensity in Double-Slit Interference

36.7 Modifications of Young’s Double-Slit Experiment

Experiment

36.8 Interference from Thin Films

36.9 Diffraction and the Wave Theory of Light

36.10 Diffraction by a Single Slit: Locating

the Minima

36.11 Intensity in Single-Slit Diffraction,

Quantitatively

36.12 Diffraction by a Circular Aperture

36.13 Diffraction by a Double Slit

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37 Relativity (Optional)

37.1 What is Physics?

37.2 The Postulates

37.3 Measuring an Event

37.4 The Relativity of Simultaneity

37.5 The Relativity of Time

37.6 The Relativity of Length

37.7 The Lorentz Transformation

37.8 Electricity and Magnetism

37.9 The Relativity of Velocities

37.10 Doppler Effect for Light

37.11 A New Look at Momentum

37.12 A New Look at Energy

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38 Photons and Matter Waves

38.1 What is Physics?

38.2 The Photon, the Quantum of Light

38.3 The Photoelectric Effect

38.4 Photons Have Momentum

38.5 Light as a Probability Wave

38.6 Electrons and Matter Waves

38.7 Schrödinger’s Equation (Optional)

38.8 Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle (Optional)

38.9 Reflection from a Potential Step (Optional)

38.10 Tunneling Through a Potential Barrier (Optional)

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39 Hydrogen Atom

39.1 What is Physics?

39.2 String Waves and Matter Waves

39.3 Energies of a Trapped Electron

39.4 Wave Functions of a Trapped Electron

39.5 The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom

39.6 Quantum Numbers for the

Hydrogen Atom

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40 All About Atoms

40.1 What is Physics

40.2 Some Properties of Atoms (Optional)

40.3 Angular Momentum, Magnetic Dipole

Moments (Optional)

40.4 The Pauli Exclusion Principle (Optional)

40.5 Building the Periodic Table (Optional)

40.6 X Rays and the Ordering of the Elements

40.7 Lasers and Laser Light (Optional)

40.8 How Lasers Work (Optional)

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41 The Nucleus

41.1 What is Physics?

41.2 Discovering the Nucleus

41.3 Some Nuclear Properties

41.4 Radioactive Decay

41.5 Alpha Decay

41.6 Beta Decay

41.7 Gamma Decay

41.8 Radioactive Dating

41.9 Nuclear Models (Optional)

41.10 Nuclear Fission: The Basic Process

41.11 Thermonuclear Fusion: The Basic Process

41.12 Thermonuclear Fusion in the

Sun and Other Stars

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42 Conduction of Electricity in Solids

42.1 What is Physics?

42.2 The Electrical Properties of Metals

42.3 Semiconductors and Doping

42.4 The p-n Junction and the Transistor

42.5 Logic Gates

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Appendix A Some Fundamental Constants

of Physics

Appendix B Mathematical Formulas

Appendix C Properties of the Elements

Appendix D JEE Advanced / Multidisciplinary

PYQs with Answers and Solutions

Appendix E JEE Main 2025 Questions

with Solutions