University Physics I Classical Mechanics

This is a “minimalist” textbook for a first semester of university, calculus-based physics, covering classical mechanics (including one chapter on mechanical waves, but excluding fluids), plus a brief introduction to thermodynamics. The presentation owes much to Mazur’s The Principles and Practice o...

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Main Author: Gea-Banacloche, Julio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Place of publication not identified] University of Arkansas [2019]
Series:Open textbook library.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Reference frames, displacement, and velocity
  • 2 Acceleration
  • 3 Momentum and Inertia
  • 4 Kinetic Energy
  • 5 Interactions and energy
  • 6 Interactions, part 2: Forces
  • 7 Impulse, Work and Power
  • 8 Motion in two dimensions
  • 9 Rotational dynamics
  • 10 Gravity
  • 11 Simple harmonic motion
  • 12 Waves in one dimension
  • 13 Thermodynamics