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Title: Physics Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes

Author: Herong Yang - Contact by email via herong_yang@yahoo.com.

Category: Science / Physics / General

Version/Edition: v3.24, 2022

Number of pages in PDF format: 176

Description: This book is a collection of notes on physics. Key sections are: What Is Space, Time and Speed; Frame of Reference; Coordinate Systems; Newton's Laws of Motion; Special Theory of Relativity; Time Dilation; Length Contraction; Minkowski spacetime; Lorentz transformation; Minkowski diagram; Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Mechanics; Generalized Coordinates; Phase Space and Phase Portrait. Updated in 2022 (Version v3.24) with minor changes.

Keywords: Hamiltonian, Lagrangian, Minkowski, Newton, Physics, Relativity, Space, Speed, Time.

Copyright:

This book is under Copyright © 2000-2022 Herong Yang. All rights reserved.
Material in this book may not be published, broadcasted, rewritten or redistributed in any form.
Code examples are provided as-is, with no warranty of any kind.

Revision history:

Version 3.24, 2022. Minor updates.
Version 3.20, 2014. Updated Minkowski spacetime and diagram.
Version 3.00, 2010. Added special relativity.
Version 2.00, 2005. Added Spacetime.
Version 1.00, 2000. Started with space and time.

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Table of Contents

►About This Book

Introduction of Space

Introduction of Frame of Reference

Introduction of Time

Introduction of Speed

Newton's Laws of Motion

Introduction of Special Relativity

Time Dilation in Special Relativity

Length Contraction in Special Relativity

The Relativity of Simultaneity

Introduction of Spacetime

Minkowski Spacetime and Diagrams

Introduction of Hamiltonian

Introduction of Lagrangian

Introduction of Generalized Coordinates

Phase Space and Phase Portrait

References

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