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Force and motion : an illustrated guide to Newton's laws / Jason Zimba.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Zimba, Jason, 1969-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Motion.
- Dynamics.
- Mechanics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (440 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Graphing relationships
- Rates of change
- Introducing position and velocity
- Vectors
- Position and velocity, revisited
- Introducing acceleration
- Acceleration as a rate of change
- Focus on a-perp
- Case study : straight-line motion
- The concept of force
- Combining forces that act on the same target
- "Newton's little law"
- Newton's second law
- Dynamics
- Newton's third law
- Kinds of force
- Strategies for applying Newton's laws.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 421) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8018-9632-0
- OCLC:
- 647865474
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