Lectures on Physics has been derived from Benjamin Crowell's Light and Matter series of free introductory textbooks on physics. See the editorial for more information....

 
 

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Preface
Newtonian Physics
Conservation Laws
Conservation of Energy
Simplifying the Energy Zoo
Work: The Transfer of
Mechanical Energy
Conservation of Momentum
Introduction
A conserved quantity of motion
Momentum
Collisions in One Dimension
The discovery of the neutron
Momentum and the
Center of Mass
The center of mass
frame of reference
The rate of change of
momentum
The Force-Time Graph
Momentum in Three Dimensions
The center of mass
Counting equations and
unknowns
Calculations with the
momentum vector
Applications of Calculus
Examples
A Cannon
Ion Drive for Propelling a
Spacecraft
The Tail of a Comet
A Spinning Top
Firing a rifle
The wobbly earth
The earth and moon
get a divorce
Momentum and energy
of a glacier
Getting rear-ended
Pool balls colliding head-on
Collision of pool balls
in the c.m. frame
The slingshot effect
Walking into a lamppost
Ion drive for spacecraft
A toppling box
An explosion
The bola
A two-car crash with sticking
Shooting pool
A Turbine
Rain falling into a moving cart
Summary
Homework Problems
Conservation of Angular
Momentum
Thermodynamics
Exercises
Vibration and Waves
Electricity
Optics
Modern Physics
Appendix

Last Update: 2011-03-23