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The adventure of physics. Vol. I, Fall, flow, and heat / Christoph Schiller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schiller, Christoph.
- Series:
- Motion mountain.
- Open Textbook Library.
- Open textbook library.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Physics--Textbooks.
- Physics.
- Genre:
- Textbooks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource : illustrations.
- Updated irregularly.
- Distribution:
- Minneapolis : Open Textbook Library.
- Other Title:
- Fall, flow, and heat.
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] : Christoph Schiller, 2016-
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Summary:
- "This book is written for anybody who is curious about nature and motion. Curiosity about how people, animals, things, images and space move leads to many adventures. This volume presents the best of them in the domain of everyday life."--Open Textbook Library.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1: Why should we care about motion?
- Chapter 2: From motion measurement to continuity
- Chapter 3: How to describe motion - kinematics
- Chapter 4: From objects and images to conservation
- Chapter 5: From the rotation of the Earth to the relativity of motion
- Chapter 6: Motion due to gravitation
- Chapter 7: Classical mechanics and the predictability of motion
- Chapter 8: Measuring change with action
- Chapter 9: Motion and symmetry
- Chapter 10: Simple motions of extended bodies - oscillations and waves
- Chapter 11: Do extended bodies exist? - Limits of continuity
- Chapter 12: Fluids and their motion
- Chapter 13: From heat to time-invariance
- Chapter 14: Self-organization and chaos - the simplicity of complexity
- Chapter 15: From the limitations of physics to the limits of motion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- This bibliographic record is available under the Creative Commons CC0 "No Rights Reserved" license.
- Description based on online version, twenty-eighth edition, 1990-2016; Title from PDF (viewed on July 27, 2016)
- ISBN:
- 1447545540
- 9781447545545
- OCLC:
- 954055101
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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