The Theoretical Minimum : What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
Leonard. Susskind
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Washington : : Basic Books, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (251 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Table of Contents; Preface; Lecture 1: The Nature of Classical Physics; Interlude 1: Spaces, Trigonometry, and Vecotrs; Lecture 2: Motion; Interlude 2: Integral Calculus; Lecture 3: Dynamics; Interlude 3: Partial Differentiation; Lecture 4: Systems of More Than One Particle; Lecture 5: Energy; Lecture 6: The Principle of Least Action; Lecture 7: Symmetries and Conservation Laws; Lecture 8: Hamiltonian Mechanics and Time-Translation Invariance; Lecture 9: The Phase Space Fluid and the Gibbs-Liouville Theorem; Lecture 10: Poisson Brackets, Angular Momentum, and Symmetries. - Lecture 11: Electric and Magnetic ForcesAppendix 1: Central Forces and Planetary Orbits; Index. - A world-class physicist and a citizen scientist combine forces to teach Physics 101-the DIY wayThe Theoretical Minimum is a book for anyone who has ever regretted not taking physics in college-or who simply wants to know how to think like a physicist. In this unconventional introduction, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky offer a first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur. Unlike most popular physics books-which give readers a taste of what physicists know but shy away from equations or math-Susskind and Hrabovsky
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| ISBN | 9780465028115. - 9780465075683
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