Transcription of 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 .. 12. 2 Motion in 1 dimension 18. Introduction .. 18. Displacement .. 18. Velocity .. 19. Acceleration .. 21. Motion with constant velocity .. 23. Motion with constant acceleration .. 24. Free-fall under gravity .. 26. 3 Motion in 3 dimensions 32. Introduction .. 32. Cartesian coordinates .. 32. Vector displacement .. 33. Vector addition .. 34. Vector magnitude .. 35. 2. Scalar multiplication .. 35. Diagonals of a parallelogram .. 36. Vector velocity and vector acceleration .. 37. Motion with constant velocity .. 39. Motion with constant acceleration .. 39. Projectile motion .. 41. Relative velocity .. 44. 4 Newton's laws of motion 53. Introduction.
109 giga- G 10-6 micro- 106 mega- M 10-9 nano- n 103 kilo- k 10-12 pico- p 102 hecto- h 10-15 femto- f 101 deka- da 10-18 atto- a Table 1: Standard prexes 1.5 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
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