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The theoretical minimum : what you need to know to start doing physics / Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky.
"A first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur ... beginning with classical mechanics"--Dust jacket flap.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780465075683 (paperback)
- ISBN: 9780465028115 (hardcover)
- ISBN: 046502811X (hardcover)
- ISBN: 9780465031740 (ebk.)
- ISBN: 0465031749 (ebk.)
- Physical Description: xi, 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Basic Books, c2013.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Includes index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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| Subject: | Physics. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Erlanger Branch | 530 S964t 2013 (Text) | 33126024294450 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |