Classical mechanics : a professor-student collaboration / edited by Mario Campanelli [and six others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Campanelli, M. (Mario), editor.

Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.

Series:

IOP ebooks. 2020 collection.

IOP ebooks. [2020 collection]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mechanics.

Physics--Textbooks.

Physics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (various pagings) : illustrations (some color).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2020]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader, EPUB reader, or Kindle reader.

Biography/History:

Mario Campanelli is an experimental particle physicist with decades of experience on the world's highest energy colliders. In 2007 he joined the faculty of University College London to work on the ATLAS experiment at CERN, where he mainly studies the properties of strong interactions. In 2018 he was nominated professor at UCL. He has 25 years of experience in teaching graduate- and undergraduate-level courses. Antonio d'Alfonso del Sordo is a Mathematics and Physics student in his third year at UCL. He has volunteered as a Maths and Physics tutor in London high schools through UCL, and worked as a Student Ambassador for his Department, as well as Mentor for Year 1 students. Camilla Tacconis will soon graduate from University College London with a BSc in Physics. She aspires to become a researcher in solid state physics, and one day use this textbook to lecture on Classical Mechanics at University. Enrico Caprioglio is a third year Theoretical Physics student, graduating in 2020. He has great experience in science communication, having worked at the London International Youth Science Forum for four years. Lodovico Scarpa is a theoretical physics student who dreams of becoming a researcher. His interests lie in the fields of (loop) quantum gravity and quantum information. Muhammad Tayyab Shabbir is a 3rd year undergraduate student at University College London. Tayyab has a background in the English and Pakistani education system and used this experience to make his contributions to the book accessible to students from all educational backgrounds. Sheila María Pérez García is a Joint Honours Mathematics and Physics student currently in her third year of study. She established a strong mathematical foundation in the book on which the more complex physical concepts rest.

Summary:

Classical Mechanics: A professor-student collaboration is a textbook tailored for undergraduate physics students embarking on a first-year module in Newtonian mechanics. This book was written as a unique collaboration between Professor Mario Campanelli and students that attended his course in Classical Mechanics at University College London (UCL). Taking his lecture notes as a starting point, and reflecting on their own experiences studying the material, the students worked together with Prof. Campanelli to produce a comprehensive course text that covers a familiar topic from a new perspective. All the fundamental topics are included, starting with an overview of the core mathematics and then moving on to statics, kinematics, dynamics and non-inertial frames, as well as fluid mechanics, which is often overlooked in standard university courses. Clear explanations and step-by-step examples are provided throughout to break down complicated ideas that can be taken for granted in other standard texts, giving students the expertise to confidently tackle their university tests and fully grasp important concepts that underpin all physics and engineering courses.

Contents:

6. Centre of mass and collisions

6.1. The centre of mass

6.2. Collisions

7. Orbits

7.1. Orbital forces

7.2. Circular motion approximation

7.3. Motion under the inverse square law of force

7.4. Orbits under an attractive force : elliptical orbits and Kepler's laws

7.5. Orbits with positive energy : unbound orbits

7.6. Reduced mass and the two-body problem

7.7. Variable mass problems

8. Rigid bodies

8.1. Preliminaries

8.2. Centre of mass

8.3. Flat object in x-y plane

8.4. General motion of a non-planar object in 3D space

9. Accelerating frames of reference

9.1. Fictitious forces

10. Fluid mechanics

10.1. Hydrostatics

10.2. Hydrodynamics

fluids in motion

11. Solutions to chapter 1 : mathematical preliminaries

12. Solutions to chapter 2 : Newton's laws

13. Selected solutions to chapter 3 : kinematic relations

14. Selected solutions to chapter 4 : oscillatory motion

15. Selected solutions to chapter 5 : angular momentum and central forces

16. Solutions to chapter 6 : centre of mass and collisions

17. Solutions to chapter 7 : orbits

18. Selected solutions to chapter 8 : rigid bodies

19. Selected solutions to chapter 9 : accelerating frames of reference

20. Solutions to chapter 10 : fluid mechanics.

1. Mathematical preliminaries

1.1. Vectors

1.2. Complex numbers

1.3. Calculus

1.4. Differential equations

2. Newton's laws

2.1. Newton's laws of motion

2.2. The concept of force

2.3. Motion under a constant force

2.4. Projectiles

2.5. Momentum and impulse

2.6. Conservation of momentum for isolated systems

3. Kinematic relations

3.1. Work and energy

3.2. Relationship between work and kinetic energy

3.3. Power

3.4. Potential energy and conservative forces

4. Oscillatory motion

4.1. Simple harmonic motion

4.2. Damped harmonic motion

4.3. Driven and damped harmonic motion

4.4. Coupled oscillators

5. Angular momentum and central forces

5.1. Polar coordinates

5.2. Circular motion

5.3. Angular momentum

5.4. Central forces

Notes:

"Version: 20200801"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Title from PDF title page (viewed on September 3, 2020).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780750326896

0750326891

9780750326902

0750326905

OCLC:

1193061847