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Kuehn, Kerry

Springer Science+Business Media

�2015-

v. < 1-2 > ill. 24 cm

Undergraduate lecture notes in physics

Note from the prefaces in the first and second volumes: "This four-volume book grew from a four-semester general physics curriculum which I developed and taught for the past decade to undergraduate students at Wisconsin Lutheran College in Milwaukee." , Includes bibliographical references and index , Volume 1 (c2015) The heavens and the earth -- Nature, number and substance -- The shape and motion of the heavens -- Harmony and complexity -- Earth at the center of the world -- The world of Ptolemy -- Measuring the tropical Year -- Geometrical tools -- The sun, the moon and the calendar -- From Astronomy to cartography -- Climates and continents -- Heliocentrism: hypothesis or truth? -- Earth as a wandering star -- Re-ordering the heavenly spheres -- Celestial physics -- Broken spheres -- Kepler's third law -- Kepler's first and second laws -- Mountains on the moon -- The Medician stars -- The luminosity of variable stars -- Galactic spectra -- Measuring astronomical distances -- A new theory of gravity -- Euclid, Gauss and Mercury's orbit -- A finite universe with no boundary -- The structure of the universe -- Measuring the potentially infinite -- The birth of the Big Bang -- The primeval atom. , Volume 2: (c2015) Space, time and motion: Scaling in art and nature -- The coherence of substances -- Archimedes' principle and falling bodies -- Falling bodies and pendular motion -- Pendular motion and harmony -- The law of the lever -- Beams, bones and giants -- Naturally accelerated motion -- The mean speed theorem -- Equilibrium, force and acceleration -- From conic sections to projectile motion -- The speed and force of a projectile -- Reason, authority and science -- Pascal's principle -- Submerged bodies -- Syringes, siphons and suckling infants -- Life under a sea of air -- Does nature abhor a vacuum? -- Mass, momentum and force -- Absolute and relative motion -- Newton's laws of motion -- Conservation of momentum -- The third law and the power of machines -- Centripetal force and acceleration -- Newton's rules of reasoning -- Planetary motion -- Universal gravitation -- Hypothesis and natural theology -- The principle of relativity -- The absolute speed of light -- Lorentz transformations -- Relativistic energy and Minkowski space.

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