Pohl's Introduction to Physics [E-Book] : Volume 1: Mechanics, Acoustics and Thermodynamics / edited by Klaus Lüders, Robert O. Pohl.
This classic textbook on experimental physics, written by Robert W. Pohl to accompany his famous lecture courses, served generations of physics and other science majors, not only in his native Germany, and was for many years a standard textbook. Pohl's lucid and memorable style and his consiste...
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Personal Name(s): | Lüders, Klaus, editor |
Pohl, Robert O, editor | |
Edition: |
1st ed. 2017. |
Imprint: |
Cham :
Springer,
2017
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Physical Description: |
XXVII, 525 pages 509 illustrations (online resource) |
Note: |
englisch |
ISBN: |
9783319400464 |
DOI: |
10.1007/978-3-319-40046-4 |
Subject (LOC): |
- A. Mechanics
- Introduction; Distance and Time Measurements
- The Description of Motion: Kinematics
- Fundamentals of Dynamics
- Applications of Newton's Equation
- Three useful concepts: Work, Energy, and Momentum
- Rotational Motion of Rigid Bodies
- Accelerated Frames of Reference
- Some Properties of Solids
- Liquids and Gases at Rest
- Motions in Liquids and Gases
- B. Vibrations and Waves
- Vibrations and Acoustics
- Travelling Waves and Radiation
- C. Thermodynamics
- Fundamentals
- First Law and the Equation of State of Ideal Gases
- Real gases
- Heat as Random motion
- Transport processes: Diffusion and Heat Conduction
- The State Function entropy, S
- Converting Heat into Work. The Second Law
- Exercise
- Solutions to the Exercises.