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The theoretical minimum : what you need to know to start doing physics /

"A first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur ... beginning with classical mechanics"--Dust jacket flap.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Susskind, Leonard
Other Authors: Hrabovsky, George
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Basic Books, [2013]
Subjects:
Physics.
Table of Contents:
  • 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.