The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

A String Theorist And A Citizen Scientist Instruct Lay Readers On Elementary Principles Of Physics And Associated Math That Amateur Enthusiasts Should Know In Order To Study More Advanced Topics, In A Reference That Covers Such Topics As Classical Mechanics, Electromagnetic Fields And Chaos Theory. A First Course In Physics And Associated Math For The Ardent Amateur ... Beginning With Classical Mechanics--dust Jacket Flap. The Nature Of Classical Physics -- Spaces, Trigonometry, And Vectors -- Motion -- Integral Calculus -- Dynamics -- Partial Differentiation -- Systems Of More Than One Particle -- Energy -- The Principle Of Least Action -- Symmetries And Conservation Laws -- Hamiltonian Mechanics And Time-translation Invariance -- The Phase Space Fluid And The Gibbs-liouville Theorem -- Poisson Brackets, Angular Momentum, And Symmetries -- Electric And Magnetic Forces -- Appendix 1. Central Forces And Planetary Orbits. Leonard Susskind And George Hrabovsky. Includes Index.