The theoretical minimum : what you need to know to start doing physics / Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky.
Title:
The theoretical minimum : what you need to know to start doing physics / Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky.
ISBN:
9780465028115
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Basic Books, [2013]
©2013
Physical Description:
xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
The nature of classical physics -- Spaces, trigonometry, and vectors -- Motion -- Integral calculus -- Dynamics -- Partial differentiation -- Systems of more than one particle -- Energy -- The principle of least action -- Symmetries and conservation laws -- Hamiltonian mechanics and time-translation invariance -- The phase space fluid and the Gibbs-Liouville Theorem -- Poisson brackets, angular momentum, and symmetries -- Electric and magnetic forces -- Appendix 1. Central forces and planetary orbits.
Summary:
"A first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur ... beginning with classical mechanics"--Dust jacket flap.
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OCLC Number:
ocn778420859
Availability:
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