If you ever regretted not taking physics in college--or simply want to know how to think like a physicist--this is the book for you. In this bestselling introduction physicist Leonard Susskind and hacker-scientist George Hrabovsky offer a first course in physics and associated math for the ardent amateur. Challenging lucid and concise The Theoretical Minimum provides a tool kit for amateur scientists to learn physics at their own pace."--Amazon.com The nature of classical physics Spaces trigonometry and vectors -- Motion Integral calculus -- Dynamics Partial differentiation -- Systems of more than one particle -- Energy -- The principle of least action -- Symmetries and conservation laws -- Hamiltonian mechanics and time-translation invariance -- The phase space fluid and the Gibbs-Liouville Theorem -- Poisson brackets angular momentum and symmetries -- Electric and magnetic forces -- Appendix 1 Central forces and planetary orbits

Leonard Susskind George Hrabovsky

The theoretical minimum: what you need to know to start doing physics