The theoretical minimum : what you need to know to start doing physics / Leonard Susskind and George Hrabovsky.

Author/creator Susskind, Leonard author.
Other author Hrabovsky, George author.
Format Book
PublicationNew York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2014]
Copyright Date©2013
Descriptionxi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Subjects

Contents 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.
General noteIncludes index.
Genre/formPopular works.
ISBN0465075681 (paperback)
ISBN9780465075683 (paperback)