Keywords:
Mechanics.
;
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
This classroom-tested text provides a one-semester, calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics for first-year undergraduate students. The authors introduce the three conservation laws as fundamental laws of nature from which secondary concepts are derived and organize topics around the conservation laws. They also illustrate many topics through real, contemporary applications in astronomy, planetary science, and space travel. The book includes short exercises throughout the text as well as novel problems at the end of each chapter.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (604 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781498752152
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5535403
DDC:
531
Language:
English
Note:
Front Cover -- Contents -- Preface for Instructors -- Preface for Students -- Authors -- Chapter 1: Surveying the Skies -- Chapter 2: Vectors -- Chapter 3: Using Vectors to Describe Motion -- Chapter 4: The First Conservation Law : Mass, Momentum, and Rocketry -- Chapter 5: Collisions and the Center of Mass -- Chapter 6: Acceleration, Force, and Newton's Laws -- Chapter 7: Circular Motion, Simple Harmonic Motion, and Time -- Chapter 8: Kepler's Laws and Newton's Discovery of Universal Gravitation -- Chapter 9: The Second Conservation Law : Energy -- Chapter 10: Gravitational Potential Energy and Orbital Motion -- Chapter 11: Rotations and the Third Conservation Law : Angular Momentum -- Chapter 12: Angular Momentum and Its Conservation -- Chapter 13: Torque, Angular Momentum, and the Earth-Moon System -- Chapter 14: Dark Matter, Dark Energy, and the Fate of the Universe -- EPILOGUE -- Appendix A: Physical Units -- Appendix B: Astrophysical Data -- Appendix C: Physical Constants -- Back Cover.
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