A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts: Volume II: Space, Time and Motion - Brossura
Libro 29 di 118: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics
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Scaling in Art and Nature.- The Coherence of Substances.- Archimedes' Principle and Falling Bodies.- Falling Bodies and Pendular Motion.- Pendular Motion and Harmony.- The Law of the Lever.- Beams, Bones and Giants.- Naturally Accelerated Motion.- The Mean Speed Theorem.- Equilibrium, Force and Acceleration.- From Conic Sections to Projectile Motion.- The Speed and Force of a Projectile.- Reason, Authority and Science.- Pascal's Principle.- Submerged Bodies.- Syringes, Siphons and Suckling Infants.- Life Under a Sea of Air.- Does Nature Abhor a Vacuum?.- Mass, Momentum and Force.- Absolute and Relative Motion.- Newton's Laws of Motion.- Conservation of Momentum.- The Third Law and the Power of Machines.- Centripetal Force and Acceleration.- Newton's Rules of Reasoning.- Planetary Motion.- Universal Gravitation.- Hypothesis and Natural Theology.- The Principle of Relativity.- The Absolute Speed of Light.- Lorentz Transformations.- Relativistic Energy and Minkowski Space.
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