ABSTRACT

Expose Your Students to the Elegant World of Physics in an Enticing WayPhysics from Planet Earth - An Introduction to Mechanics provides a one-semester, calculus-based introduction to classical mechanics for first-year undergraduate students studying physics, chemistry, astronomy, or engineering. Developed from classroom-tested materials refined an

chapter 1|30 pages

Surveying the Skies

chapter 2|26 pages

Vectors

chapter 3|36 pages

Using Vectors to Describe Motion

chapter 5|38 pages

Collisions and the Center of Mass

chapter 6|46 pages

Acceleration, Force, and Newton’s Laws

chapter 9|50 pages

The Second Conservation Law: Energy

chapter 12|38 pages

Angular Momentum and Its Conservation