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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456848303321

Autore

Zimba Jason <1969->

Titolo

Force and motion [[electronic resource] ] : an illustrated guide to Newton's laws / / Jason Zimba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8018-9632-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Disciplina

531/.11

Soggetti

Motion

Dynamics

Mechanics

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 421) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Graphing relationships -- Rates of change -- Introducing position and velocity -- Vectors -- Position and velocity, revisited -- Introducing acceleration -- Acceleration as a rate of change -- Focus on a-perp -- Case study : straight-line motion -- The concept of force -- Combining forces that act on the same target -- "Newton's little law" -- Newton's second law -- Dynamics -- Newton's third law -- Kinds of force -- Strategies for applying Newton's laws.