Forces and Particles - An Outline of the Principles of Classical Physics
By A. B. Pippard, Sc.D., F.R.S.
Macmillan | 1972 | ISBN-10: 0333106814 | PDF | 321 pages | 30.4 mb
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This book is an expanded version of a lecture course given for several
years to first-year Cambridge undergraduates reading physics as one of
three experimental sciences for the Natural Sciences Tripos, Part 1A.
CONTENTS
1 Introduction 3
A brief exposition of the purpose and plan of the book; what background knowledge is assumed.
2 Kinematics 9
3 Newton's laws of motion 20
4 The inverse-square laws (Newton, MicheU, Coulomb) 47
5 Dynamics of particles 60
6 Analysis of complex dynamical systems 86
7 Units and dimensions 122
8 The electrostatic field: charges and conductors in free space 145
9 Dielectric materials 178
10 Magnetic fields due to currents 196
11 Charged particles in electric and magnetic fields 223
12 Electromagnetic induction 242
13 Magnetic materials 272
14 MaxwelI's displacement hypothesis and electromagnetic waves 286
Appendix Vector formulae 313
Index 317
