The theoretical minimum what you need to know to start doing physics
A string theorist and a citizen scientist instruct lay readers on elementary principles of physics and associated math that amateur enthusiasts should know in order to study more advanced topics, in a reference that covers such topics as classical mechanics, electromagnetic fields and chaos theory.
| Main Author: | Susskind, Leonard. |
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| Other Authors: | Hrabovsky, George. |
| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
c2013.
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Table of 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.