Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeown's Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach.In
Classical Mechanics An introductory course
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โฆ Table of Contents
Introduction
Major sources:
What is classical mechanics?
mks units
Standard prefixes
Other units
Precision and significant figures
Dimensional analysis
Motion in 1 dimension
Introduction
Displacement
Velocity
Acceleration
Motion with constant velocity
Motion with constant acceleration
Free-fall under gravity
Motion in 3 dimensions
Introduction
Cartesian coordinates
Vector displacement
Vector addition
Vector magnitude
Scalar multiplication
Diagonals of a parallelogram
Vector velocity and vector acceleration
Motion with constant velocity
Motion with constant acceleration
Projectile motion
Relative velocity
Newton's laws of motion
Introduction
Newton's first law of motion
Newton's second law of motion
Hooke's law
Newton's third law of motion
Mass and weight
Strings, pulleys, and inclines
Friction
Frames of reference
Conservation of energy
Introduction
Energy conservation during free-fall
Work
Conservative and non-conservative force-fields
Potential energy
Hooke's law
Motion in a general 1-dimensional potential
Power
Conservation of momentum
Introduction
Two-component systems
Multi-component systems
Rocket science
Impulses
Collisions in 1-dimension
Collisions in 2-dimensions
Circular motion
Introduction
Uniform circular motion
Centripetal acceleration
The conical pendulum
Non-uniform circular motion
The vertical pendulum
Motion on curved surfaces
Rotational motion
Introduction
Rigid body rotation
Is rotation a vector?
The vector product
Centre of mass
Moment of inertia
Torque
Power and work
Translational motion versus rotational motion
The physics of baseball
Combined translational and rotational motion
Angular momentum
Introduction
Angular momentum of a point particle
Angular momentum of an extended object
Angular momentum of a multi-component system
Statics
Introduction
The principles of statics
Equilibrium of a laminar object in a gravitational field
Rods and cables
Ladders and walls
Jointed rods
Oscillatory motion
Introduction
Simple harmonic motion
The torsion pendulum
The simple pendulum
The compound pendulum
Uniform circular motion
Orbital motion
Introduction
Historical background
Gravity
Gravitational potential energy
Satellite orbits
Planetary orbits
Wave motion
Introduction
Waves on a stretched string
General waves
Wave-pulses
Standing waves
The Doppler effect
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Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeowns Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach.In a
Extensively field-tested and fine-tuned over many years, and designed specifically for a one-year course, JC McKeown's Classical Latin: An Introductory Course offers a thorough, fascinating, and playful grounding in Latin that combines the traditional grammatical method with the reading approach.<br
In a comprehensive treatment of Statistical Mechanics from thermodynamics through the renormalization group, this book serves as the core text for a full-year graduate course in statistical mechanics at either the Masters or Ph.D. level. Each chapter contains numerous exercises, and several chapters
In a comprehensive treatment of Statistical Mechanics from thermodynamics through the renormalization group, this book serves as the core text for a full-year graduate course in statistical mechanics at either the Masters or Ph.D. level. Each chapter contains numerous exercises, and several chapters