Bibliograph

The theoretical minimum, what you need to know to start doing physics, Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky

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The theoretical minimum, what you need to know to start doing physics, Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky

Language

eng

Illustrations

illustrations

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The theoretical minimum

Responsibility statement

Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky

Sub title

what you need to know to start doing physics

Summary

Instructs lay readers on elementary principles of physics that amateur enthusiasts should know in order to study more advanced topics, covering such topics as classical mechanics, electromagnetic fields, and chaos theory

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

Target audience

adult

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What you need to know to start doing physics

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