If you ever regretted not taking physics in college—or simply want to know how to think like a physicist—this is the book for you. In this bestselling introduction, physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky offer a first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur. Challenging, lucid, and concise, The Theoretical Minimum provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace.
Author(s): Leonard Susskind, George Hrabovsky
Publisher: Basic Books
Year: 2013
Language: English
Pages: 256
Tags: Физика;
Table of Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
Lecture 1: The Nature of Classical Physics......Page 14
Interlude 1: Spaces, Trigonometry, and Vecotrs......Page 28
Lecture 2: Motion......Page 42
Interlude 2: Integral Calculus......Page 60
Lecture 3: Dynamics......Page 71
Interlude 3: Partial Differentiation......Page 87
Lecture 4: Systems of More Than One Particle......Page 98
Lecture 5: Energy......Page 108
Lecture 6: The Principle of Least Action......Page 118
Lecture 7: Symmetries and Conservation Laws......Page 141
Lecture 8: Hamiltonian Mechanics and Time-Translation Invariance......Page 158
Lecture 9: The Phase Space Fluid and the Gibbs-Liouville Theorem......Page 175
Lecture 10: Poisson Brackets, Angular Momentum, and Symmetries......Page 187
Lecture 11: Electric and Magnetic Forces......Page 203
Appendix 1: Central Forces and Planetary Orbits......Page 225
Index......Page 242
