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.

The mks system is not the only system of units in existence. Unfortunately, the obsolete cgs (centimeter-gram-second) system and the even more obsolete fps (foot-pound-second) system are still in use today, although their continued em-ployment is now strongly discouraged in science and …

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