The Theoretical Minimum : : What you Need to Know to Start Doing Physics
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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.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Basic Books, c2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: xi, 238 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780465028115
046502811X
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Hrabovsky, George.
SUBJECTS
Physics.