A Student's Guide Through the Great Physics Texts Volume II: Space, Time and Motion /
This book provides a chronological introduction to the science of motion and rest based on the reading and analysis of significant portions of Galileo’s Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences, Pascal’s Treatise on the Equilibrium of Fluids and the Weight of the Mass of Air, Newton’s Mathematical Prin...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2015.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2015. |
| Series: | Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1366-4 |
Table of Contents:
- 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.