Guide to Classical Physics

James W. Rohlf is a Professor at Boston University. As a graduate student he worked on the first experiment to trigger on hadron jets with a calorimeter, Fermilab E260. His thesis (G. C. Fox, advisor, C. Barnes, R. P. Feynman, R. Gomez) used the model of Field and Feynman to compare observed jets from hadron collisions to that from electron-positron collisions and made detailed acceptance corrections to arrive at first the measurement of quark-quark scattering cross sections. His thesis is published in Nuclear Physics B171 (1980) 1. At the Cornell Electron Storage Rings, he worked on the discovery of the Upsilon (4S) resonance and using novel event shape variables developed by Stephen Wolfram and his thesis advisor, Geoffrey Fox. He performed particle identification of kaons and charmed mesons to establish the quark decay sequence, b –> c. At CERN, he worked on the discovery of the W and Z bosons and measurement of their properties. Presently, he is working on the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which discovered the Higgs boson and is searching for new phenomena beyond the standard model.

Chapter 1: Units. Chapter 2: Functions. Chapter 3: Vectors. Chapter 4: Motion in One Dimension. Chapter 5: Motion in Two and Three Dimension. Chapter 6: Newton's Laws. Chapter 7: Energy. Chapter 8: Momentum. Chapter 9: Rotational Motion. Chapter 10: Universal Gravitation. Chapter 11: Fluids. Chapter 12: Thermodynamics. Chapter 13: Waves. Appendix A: Mathematica Starter. Appendix B: Spherical and Cylindrical Coordinates. Index.