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Part One: Newtonian Mechanics of a Single Particle

By R. Douglas Gregory
From Classical Mechanics: An Undergraduate Text

Chapter List

Chapter One: The Algebra and Calculus of Vectors
Chapter Two: Velocity, Acceleration and Scalar Angular Velocity
Chapter Three: Newton s Laws of Motion and the Law of Gravitation
Chapter Four: Problems in Particle Dynamics
Chapter Five: Linear Oscillations and Normal Modes
Chapter Six: Energy Conservation
Chapter Seven: Orbits in a Central Field Including Rutherford Scattering
Chapter Eight: Non-linear Oscillations and Phase Space
Copyright Cambridge University Press 2006 under license agreement with Books24x7
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