Newtonian Mechanics: A Modelling Approach (Essentials of Physics Series)

Newtonian mechanics is taught aspart of every physics program for several reasons. It is a towering intellectual achievement; it has diverse applications; and it provides a context for teaching modelling and problem solving. This text gives equal prominence to all three missions. It therefore includes some advanced material as well as the customary introductory topics and is designed to be studied over an extended time\-frame. The problem\-solving aspects are developed more fully than in many other texts; showing readers how problems are approached and bringing out the ways of going about constructing a model and solution.\nFEATURES:<\/b>\nIncludes some advanced material as well as the customary introductory topics\nThe problem\-solving aspects are developed more fully than in many other texts; showing readers how problems are approached and bringing out the methods of going about constructing a model and solution.

Derek Raine, PhD, is director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Science in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University ofLeicester. His research has ranged over relativity, quantum field theory, astrophysics, and more recently, biophysics and complex systems.