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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: v3.25, 2024

Number of pages in PDF format: 183

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; Poisson Bracket Expression. Updated in 2024 (Version v3.25) with minor changes.

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

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Table of Contents

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 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

 Poisson Bracket Expression

 References

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