Neoclassical Physics

• Main Author: Cunningham, Mark A. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics,
• Subjects: Physics.; Mathematical physics.; Continuum physics.; Classical Continuum Physics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Numerical and Computational Physics.; Mathematical Applications in the Physical Sciences.

In this introductory text, physics concepts are introduced as a means of understanding experimental observations, not as a sequential list of facts to be memorized. The book is structured around the key scientific discoveries that led to much of our current understanding of the universe. Numerous ex...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• On the Motion of Planets
• On the Nature of Matter
• On the Nature of Spacetime
• More on the Nature of Matter
• Terrestrial Mechanics
• Celestial Mechanics
• Constituents of the Atom
• The Classical Electron
• Modern Technology
• Emergent Phenomena
• Appendix A. Vectors and Matrices
• Appendix B. Noether’s Theorem
• Index.