Classical Mechanics

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Classical Mechanics An introductory course Richard Fitzpatrick Associate Professor of physics The University of Texas at Austin Contents 1 Introduction 7. Major sources: . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. What is Classical Mechanics ? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7. mks units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9. Standard prefixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10. Other units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11. Precision and significant figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12. Dimensional analysis.

Physics for scientists and engineers: R.A. Serway, and R.J. Beichner, Fifth edition, Vol. 1 (Saunders College Publishing, Orlando FL, 2000). 1.2 What is classical mechanics? Classical mechanics is the study of the motion of bodies (including the special

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