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The lazy universe : an introduction to the principle of least action /

The Principle of Least Action underlies all physics and leads into quantum mechanics and Einstein's Relativity. There are some textbooks that do the calculations, and one book with nice pictures, but no book (before this one) that explains what 'action' is, and why nature follows this...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Coopersmith, Jennifer (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, United States of America : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edición:First edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover; Preface; Contents; List of Figures; 1 Introduction; 2 Antecedents; 3 Mathematics and physics preliminaries: of hills and plains and other things; 4 The Principle of Virtual Work; 5 D'Alembert's Principle; 6 Lagrangian Mechanics; 7 Hamiltonian Mechanics; 8 The whole of physics; 9 Final words; A1.1 Newton's Laws of Motion; A2.1 Portraits of the physicists; A3.1 Reversible displacements; A6.1 Worked examples in Lagrangian Mechanics; A6.2 Proof that T is a function of v2 ; A6.3 Energy conservation and the homogeneity of time; A6.4 The method of Lagrange Multipliers. 
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505 8 |a A7.12 Einstein's link between Action and the de Broglie wavesBibliography and Further Reading; Index. 
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