Physics from planet Earth - an introduction to mechanics / Joseph C. Amato, Enrique J. Galvez.
Material type: TextPublisher: Boca Raton : CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: xvii, 593 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781439867839 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
- 1439867836 (hardcover : acidfree paper)
- 531 23
- QA805 .A48 2015
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Surveying the skies -- Vectors -- Using vectors to describe motion -- The first conservation law: mass, momentum, and rocketry -- Collisions and the center of mass -- Acceleration, force, and Newton's laws -- Circular motion, simple harmonic motion, and time -- Kepler's laws and Newton's discovery of universal gravitation -- The second conservation law: energy -- Gravitational potential energy and orbital motion -- Rotations and the third conservation law: angular momentum -- Angular momentum and its conservation -- Torque, angular momentum, and the earth-moon system -- Dark matter, dark energy, and the fate of the universe.
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