"Version: 20190701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 2. Cut and thrust--the physics of fencing -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. Equipment -- 2.3. Fencing technique -- 2.4. Wheelchair fencing3. Foot to the floor--the physics of drag racing -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. View from …
"Version: 20191201"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- part I. Falling bodies and the universality of free fall -- 2. Galileo and free fall3. Newton's pendulum experiment and replications by Bessel and Potter -- 3.1. Newton's pendulum experiment -- 3.2. The experiments of Bes…
"Version: 20191101"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Introduction -- 1.1. ISLE and interactive teaching methods -- 1.2. Example of an ISLE process -- 1.3. Elements of the ISLE process and their logical connections -- 1.4. Interlude : when inquiry fails : the need for a framework of epistem…
"A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso."Version: 20160501"--Title page verso.EPUB version includes embedded videos.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- 1. Introduction to video analysis -- 2. Choosing and finding appropriate videos for analysis -- 3. Video analysis and basic projectile motion -- 4. Video analysis with perspective correction …
"Version: 20251201"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Science as a human endeavor -- 1.1. Our attempts to understand the Universe -- 1.2. Motivations and questions : how science evolves -- 1.3. Cautionary tales from "failed science" -- 1.4. The role of mathematics -- 1.5. Mathematical modeling : a crucial skill for physics -- 1.6. Exercises2. Celestial spheres and planeta…
"Version: 20250901"--Title page verso.Revised edition of Classical mechanics.Includes bibliographical references.1. Tools and vectors -- 1.1. Motivation -- 1.2. Getting ready -- 1.3. Giving information -- 1.4. Keeping information2. Kinematics -- 2.1. Motivation -- 2.2. Getting ready -- 2.3. Giving information -- 2.4. Keeping information3. Uniformly accelerated motion -- 3.1. Motivation -- 3.2. …
"Version: 20140701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.Preface -- part I. Lab preparation -- 1. Apps for mobile devices -- 1.1. Operating systems -- 1.2. Typical sensors -- 1.3. Analysis software -- 1.4. Example -- 1.5. Other materials -- 1.6. Summary2. Working with spreadsheets -- 2.1. A cell …
"Version: 20180901"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.part I. Introduction. 1. Historical background -- 2. Brief history of the Universe -- 3. Let there be light -- 3.1. Light magnitude4. Stars -- 4.1. Clusters -- 4.2. Stellar evolution5. Galaxy formation -- 5.1. Galaxy classes -- 5.2. Galaxy …
"Version: 20180601"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Preliminaries -- 1.1. Some mathematics -- 1.2. How Lissajous figures are formed2. History -- 2.1. Nathaniel Bowditch and the Y-shaped pendulum -- 2.2. Jules Lissajous and his tuning forks -- 2.3. Hubert Airy's harmonographs3. Harmonograp…
"Version: 20180701"--Title page verso."A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.Includes bibliographical references.1. Interaction at a distance? Rather, the propagation of a field -- 1.1. Static fields perhaps well known -- 1.2. Time dependent fields perhaps less well known -- 1.3. Bibliography2. The messengers of the interactions : the 'quanta' of the …