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Force and Motion:

An Illustrated Guide to Newton's Laws
  • ISBN-13: 9780801891601
  • Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Jason Zimba
  • Price: AUD $124.00
  • Stock: 0 in stock
  • Availability: This book is temporarily out of stock, order will be despatched as soon as fresh stock is received.
  • Local release date: 14/08/2009
  • Format: Paperback 440 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Physics [PH]
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Isaac Newton developed three laws of motion that govern the everyday world. These laws are usually presented in purely mathematical forms, but Jason Zimba breaks with tradition and treats them visually. This unique approach allows students to appreciate the conceptual underpinnings of each law before moving on to qualitative descriptions of motion and, finally, to the equations and their solutions. Zimba has organized the book into seventeen brief and well-sequenced lessons, which focus on simple, manageable topics and delve into areas that often cause students to stumble. Each lesson is followed by a set of original problems that have been student-tested and refined over twenty years. Zimba illustrates the laws with more than 350 diagrams, an innovative presentation that offers a fresh way to teach the fundamentals in introductory physics, mechanics, and kinematics courses.

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIndex of Key MaterialPart I: Describing Motion1. Graphing Relationships2. Rates of Change3. Introducing Position and Velocity4. Vectors5. Position and Velocity, Revisited6. Introducing Acceleration7. Acceleration as a Rate of Change8. Focus on a-Perp9. Case Study: Straight-Line MotionPart II: Explaining and Predicting Motion10. The Concept of Force11. Combining Forces That Act on the Same Target12. ""Newton's Little Law""13. Newton's Second Law14. Dynamics15. Newton's Third Law16. Kinds of Force17. Strategies for Applying Newton's LawsAppendix: Derivation of Huygen's FormulaAnswers to Focused ProblemsReferencesIndex of Problem SituationsSubject Index

""Problem sets help high school and college students of all backgrounds understand mechanics.""

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