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Author Idema, Timon.

Title Mechanics and relativity / Timon Idema.

Publication Info. Delft, The Netherlands : Delft University of Technology, 2018.
Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library.

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 179 pages) : color illustrations.
text file PDF
Physical Medium polychrome
Series TU Delft open textbooks
Note Title from PDF title page (viewed Feb. 26, 2019).
Includes index.
This work is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.
Contents I. Classical mechanics. 1. Introduction to classical mechanics ; 2. Forces ; 3. Energy ; 4. Momentum ; 5. Rotational motion, torque and angular momentum ; 6. General planar motion ; 7. General rotational motion ; 8. Oscillations ; 9. Waves -- II. Special relativity. 10. Einstein's postulates ; 11. Lorentz transformations ; 12. Spacetime diagrams ; 13. Position, energy and momentum in special relativity ; 14. Relativistic collisions ; 15. Relativistic forces and waves -- Appendices. A. Math ; B. Some equations and constants ; C. Image, data and problem credits ; D. Summary and author biography -- Index.
Summary "In Mechanics and Relativity, the reader is taken on a tour through time and space. Starting from the basic axioms formulated by Newton and Einstein, the theory of motion at both the everyday and the highly relativistic level is developed without the need of prior knowledge. The relevant mathematics is provided in an appendix. The text contains various worked examples and a large number of original problems to help the reader develop an intuition for the physics. Applications covered in the book span a wide range of physical phenomena, including rocket motion, spinning tennis rackets and high-energy particle collisions"--Textbook Web page.
Local Note Open Educational Resources (OER). Open Textbooks
Open Textbook Library
Subject Mechanics.
Mechanics.
Relativistic mechanics.
Relativistic mechanics.
Physics.
Physics.
Added Author Open Textbook Library.
ISBN 9789463660877 (hardcopy)
9463660879 (hardcopy)
9789463660853 (ebook)
9463660852 (ebook)