The Mechanical Universe: Mechanics and Heat, Advanced Edition
by Steven C. Frautschi , Richard P. Olenick , Tom M. Apostol , David L. GoodsteinFormat: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1986-03-31
Publisher(s): Cambridge University Press
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Summary
Written in the same spirit and with the same vivid style as The Mechanical Universe: Introduction to Mechanics and Heat, this textbook is aimed at undergraduate students of physics and engineering. Thus the authors go into certain questions more deeply, are more concerned in describing the scientific development and consider more fully the verification, implication and justification of the ideas discussed than in the lower level book. Many more specific examples are given and each chapter ends with a problem set (a teacher's manual will be available). The mathematical tools are of course more fully developed, as befits a calculus-based course in classical mechanics.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction to the mechanical universe | |
| The law of falling bodies | |
| The language of nature: derivatives and integrals | |
| Inertia | |
| Vectors | |
| Newton's laws and equilibrium | |
| Universal gravitation and circular motion | |
| Forces | |
| Forces in accelerating reference frames | |
| Energy: conservation and conversion | |
| The conservation of momentum | |
| Oscillatory motion | |
| Angular momentum | |
| Rotational dynamics for rigid bodies | |
| Gyroscopes | |
| Kepler's laws and the conic sections | |
| Solving the Kepler problem | |
| Navigating in space | |
| Temperatures and the gas laws | |
| The engine of nature | |
| Entropy | |
| The quest for low temperature | |
| The international system of units | |
| Conversion factors | |
| Formulas from algebra, geometry, and trigonometry | |
| Astronomical data | |
| Physical constraints | |
| Selected bibliography | |
| Index | |
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