Applications of Classical Physics
By addebook • Jul 2nd, 2008 • Category: Physics •
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Applications of Classical Physics
“This book is an introduction to the fundamentals and 21st-centuryapplications of all the major branches of classical physics exceptclassical mechanics, electromagnetic theory, and elementarythermodynamics (which we assume the reader has already learnedelsewhere).”Also from the preface:”In this book, we also seek to teach the reader how to apply classicalphysics ideas. We do so by presenting contemporary applications from avariety of fields, such as fundamental physics, experimental physics and applied physics; astrophysics and cosmology; geophysics, oceanography and meteorology; engineering, optical science & technology, radio science & technology,and information science & technology.”>From Chapter 1:”By contrast, in this book, we shall express all physical quantities andlaws in a geometric form that is independent of any coordinate system.For example, in Newtonian physics, momenta and electric fields will bevectors described as arrows that live in the 3-dimensional, flatEuclidean space of everyday experience. They require no coordinatesystem at all for their existence or description-though sometimescoordinates will be useful. We shall state physical laws, e.g. theLorentz force law, as geometric, coordinate-free relationships betweenthese geometric, coordinate free quantities.”
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