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This is a calculus-based book meant for the first semester of a first year survey course taken by engineering and physical science majors. It has a traditional order of topics whereby force is discussed before energy.

It is divided into 17 chapters that cover:

  • a review of high school physics,
  • scaling and estimation,
  • vectors,
  • velocity,
  • acceleration,
  • forces,
  • circular motion,
  • gravity,
  • conservation of energy,
  • work,
  • conservation of momentum and angular momentum,
  • vibrations, and
  • resonance.

A treatment of relativity is interspersed with the Newtonian mechanics, in optional sections.

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Ben Crowell
Publish Date
2019
Level
Undergraduate
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CC BY-SA 3.0
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