The theoretical minimum : what you need to know to start doing physics / Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky.
"A first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur ... beginning with classical mechanics"--Dust jacket flap.
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Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
[2013], ©2013.
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Physical Description: | xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
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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.