Great ideas of classical physics
By: Steven Pollock
Series: The great courses; Great courses
Publisher: Teaching Co.
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Chantilly, Va
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781598032550
Subjects: Physics; Cosmology
Notes: "Lecture transcript and course guidebook"--Cover.

Includes biography, timeline, glossary, biographical notes, and bibliography in each vol.

Lectures by Steven Pollock.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. The great ideas of classical physics; title: Describing motion; title: a break from Aristotle; title: Describing ever more complex motion; title: Astronomy as a bridge to modern physics; title: Isaac Newton; title: The dawn of classical physics; title: Newton quantified; title: force and acceleration; title: Newton and the connections to astronomy; title: Universal gravitation; title: Newton's third law; title: Conservation of momentum; title: Beyond Newton; title: work and energy; title: Power and the Newtonian synthesis; title: pt. 2. Further developments; title: static electricity; title: Electricity, magnetism, and force fields; title: Electrical currents and voltage; title: The origin of electric and magnetic fields; title: Unification 1; title: Maxwell's equations; title: Unification II; title: electromagnetism and light; title: Vibrations and waves; title: Sound waves and light waves; title: The atomic hypothesis; title: Energy in systems; title: heat and thermodynamics; title: Heat and the second law of thermodynamics; title: The grand picture of classical physics.