Force and Motion

An Illustrated Guide to Newton's Laws

Jason Zimba (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

440 Seiten

2009
Johns Hopkins University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8018-9160-1 (ISBN)

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Isaac Newton developed three laws of motion that govern the everyday world. These laws are usually presented in purely mathematical forms, but Jason Zimba breaks with tradition and treats them visually. This unique approach allows students to appreciate the conceptual underpinnings of each law before moving on to qualitative descriptions of motion and, finally, to the equations and their solutions. Zimba has organized the book into seventeen brief and well-sequenced lessons, which focus on simple, manageable topics and delve into areas that often cause students to stumble. Each lesson is followed by a set of original problems that have been student-tested and refined over twenty years. Zimba illustrates the laws with more than 350 diagrams, an innovative presentation that offers a fresh way to teach the fundamentals in introductory physics, mechanics, and kinematics courses.

Jason Zimba is a faculty member in physics and mathematics at Bennington College and has taught at Grinnell College and the University of California, Berkeley. He was the recipient in 2006 of the Majorana Prize.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Index of Key Material
Part I: Describing Motion
1. Graphing Relationships
2. Rates of Change
3. Introducing Position and Velocity
4. Vectors
5. Position and Velocity, Revisited
6. Introducing Acceleration
7. Acceleration as a Rate of Change
8. Focus on a-Perp
9. Case Study: Straight-Line Motion
Part II: Explaining and Predicting Motion
10. The Concept of Force
11. Combining Forces That Act on the Same Target
12. "Newton's Little Law"
13. Newton's Second Law
14. Dynamics
15. Newton's Third Law
16. Kinds of Force
17. Strategies for Applying Newton's Laws
Appendix: Derivation of Huygen's Formula
Answers to Focused Problems
References
Index of Problem Situations
Subject Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.7.2009
Zusatzinfo	3 Halftones, black and white; 349 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	Baltimore, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 254 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Mechanik
ISBN-10	0-8018-9160-4 / 0801891604
ISBN-13	978-0-8018-9160-1 / 9780801891601
Zustand	Neuware