Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
The theoretical minimum : what you need to know to start doing physics
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
- Summary
-
"A first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur ... beginning with classical mechanics"--Dust jacket flap.
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
-
- New York, NY : Basic Books, [2013]
- ©2013
- Physical Details
-
- xi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780465028115, 046502811X, 9780465031740
- OCLC
- ocn778420859
- Includes index.
- 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