Mechanics and Thermodynamics

✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Demtröder

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 459
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This introduction to classical mechanics and thermodynamics provides an accessible and clear treatment of the fundamentals. Starting with particle mechanics and an early introduction to special relativity this textbooks enables the reader to understand the basics in mechanics. The text is written from the experimental physics point of view, giving numerous real life examples and applications of classical mechanics in technology. This highly motivating presentation deepens the knowledge in a very accessible way. The second part of the text gives a concise introduction to rotational motion, an expansion to rigid bodies, fluids and gases. Finally, an extensive chapter on thermodynamics and a short introduction to nonlinear dynamics with some instructive examples intensify the knowledge of more advanced topics. Numerous problems with detailed solutions are perfect for self study

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-XV
Introduction and Survey....Pages 1-37
Mechanics of a Point Mass....Pages 39-79
Moving Coordinate Systems and Special Relativity....Pages 81-101
Systems of Point Masses; Collisions....Pages 103-127
Dynamics of rigid Bodies....Pages 129-152
Real Solid and Liquid Bodies....Pages 153-182
Gases....Pages 183-208
Liquids and Gases in Motion; Fluid Dynamics....Pages 209-235
Vacuum Physics....Pages 237-252
Thermodynamics....Pages 253-319
Mechanical Oscillations and Waves....Pages 321-379
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos....Pages 381-399
Supplement....Pages 401-412
Solutions of the Problems....Pages 413-443
Back Matter....Pages 445-452