The Adventure of Physics - Vol. I Fall, Flow, and Heat
This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best of them in the domain of everyday life. Carefully observing everyday motion allows us to deduce six esse...
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Motion Mountain
[1990]
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Why should we care about motion?
- 2 From motion measurement to continuity
- 3 How to describe motion - kinematics
- 4 From objects and images to conservation
- 5 From the rotation of the Earth to the relativity of motion
- 6 Motion due to gravitation
- 7 Classical mechanics and the predictability of motion
- 8 Measuring change with action
- 9 Motion and symmetry
- 10 Simple motions of extended bodies – oscillations and waves
- 11 Do extended bodies exist? – Limits of continuity
- 12 Fluids and their motion
- 13 On heat and motion reversal invariance
- 14 Self-organization and chaos - the simplicity of complexity
- 15 From the limitations of physics to the limits of motion