Classical Mechanics: From Newton to Einstein: A Modern Introduction - Softcover

McCall, Martin W.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0470715723 ISBN 13: 9780470715727

Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2010

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Book by McCall Martin W

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"This book aimed at undergraduate physics and engineering students, presents in a user-friendly style an authoritative approach to the complementary subjects of classical mechanics and relativity." (Zentralblatt MATH, 2011) "When McCall (Imperial College London) decided to produce a second edition of his introductory textbook, he was keen to keep it accessible to third-year undergraduates with minimal background in mathematics. So he has embellished the original material rather than expanding into more advanced areas. New discussions include a body free-falling a large distance under gravity, a demonstration that snooker balls always scatter at 90 degrees, the rotation of arbitrary bodies, and the tennis racket theorem." (Reference and Research Book News, February 2011)

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This new edition of Classical Mechanics, aimed at undergraduate physics and engineering students, presents ina user-friendly style an authoritative approach to the complementary subjects of classical mechanics and relativity. The text starts with a careful look at Newton's Laws, before applying them in one dimension to oscillations and collisions. More advanced applications - including gravitational orbits and rigid body dynamics - are discussed after the limitations of Newton's inertial frames have been highlighted through an exposition of Einstein's Special Relativity. Examples given throughout are often unusual for an elementary text, but are made accessible to the reader through discussion and diagrams. Updates and additions for this new edition include: * New vector notation in Chapter 1 * An enhanced discussion of equilibria in Chapter 2 * A new section on a body falling a large distance towards a gravitational source in Chapter 2 * New sections in Chapter 8 on general rotation about a fixed principal axes, simple examples of principal axes and principal moments of inertia and kinetic energy of a body rotating about a fixed axis * New sections in chapter 9: Foucault pendulum and free rotation of a rigid body; the latter including the famous tennis racquet theorem * Enhanced chapter summaries at the end of each chapter * Novel problems with numerical answers A solutions manual is available at: www.wiley.com/go/mccall

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• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0470715723
• ISBN 13: 9780470715727
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 250