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Title

Feynman's tips on physics : a problem-solving supplement to the Feynman lectures on physics / Richard P. Feynman, Michael A. Gottlieb, and Ralph Leighton ; with a memoir by Matthew Sands ; and exercises and answers by Robert B. Leighton and Rochus E. Vogt.

Author

Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.

Publication

San Francisco : Addison-Wesley, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Gottlieb, Michael A.
• Leighton, Ralph.
• Sands, Matthew L. (Matthew Linzee)
• Leighton, Robert B.
• Vogt, Rochus, 1929-
• Feynman, Richard P. (Richard Phillips), 1918-1988.

Description

xiii, 162 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

• Physics
• Physics > Problems, exercises, etc
• Natuurkunde
• Physik

Genre/Form

• Beispielsammlung.
• Problems and exercises.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Prerequisites. Introduction to the review lecture ; Caltech from the bottom ; Mathematics for physics ; Differentiation ; Integration ; Vectors ; Differentiating vectors ; Line integrals ; A simple example ; Triangulation -- 2. Laws and intuition. The physical laws ; The nonrelativistic approximation ; Motion with forces ; Forces and their potentials ; Learning physics by example ; Understanding physics physically ; A problem in machine design ; Earth's escape velocity ; Alternate solutions. Finding the acceleration of the weight using geometry ; Finding the acceleration of the weight using trigonometry ; Finding the force on the weight using torque and angular momentum -- 3. Problems and solutions. Satellite motion ; Discovery of the atomic nucleus ; The fundamental rocket equation ; A numerical integration ; Chemical rockets ; Ion propulsion rockets ; Photon propulsion rockets ; An electrostatic proton beam deflector ; Determining the mass of the pi meson -- 4. Dynamical effects and their applications. A demonstration gyroscope ; The directional gyro ; The artificial horizon ; A ship-stabilizing gyroscope ; The gyrocompass ; Improvements in gyroscopes design and construction ; Accelerometers ; A complete navigational system ; Effects of the earth's rotation ; The spinning disk ; Earth's nutation ; Angular momentum in astronomy ; Angular momentum in quantum mechanics ; After the lecture -- 5. Selected exercises. Conservation of energy, statics ; Kepler's laws and gravitation ; Kinematics ; Newton's laws ; Conservation of momentum ; Vectors ; Nonrelativistic two-body collisions in 3 dimensions ; Forces ; Potentials and fields ; Units and dimensions ; Relativistic energy and momentum ; Rotations in two dimensions, the center mass ; Angular momentum, the moment of inertia ; Rotation in three dimensions.

ISBN

• 0805390634 (pbk.)
• 9780805390636 (pbk.)

LCCN

2005013077

OCLC

• ocm60321999
• 60321999
• SCSB-5778191

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries