Elementary Mechanics Using Python: A Modern Course Combining Analytical and Numerical Techniques (Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics) 2015th Edition

by Anders Malthe-Sørenssen (Author)

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This book – specifically developed as a novel textbook on elementary classical mechanics – shows how analytical and numerical methods can be seamlessly integrated to solve physics problems. This approach allows students to solve more advanced and applied problems at an earlier stage and equips them to deal with real-world examples well beyond the typical special cases treated in standard textbooks.

Another advantage of this approach is that students are brought closer to the way physics is actually discovered and applied, as they are introduced right from the start to a more exploratory way of understanding phenomena and of developing their physical concepts.

While not a requirement, it is advantageous for the reader to have some prior knowledge of scientific programming with a scripting-type language. This edition of the book uses Python, and a chapter devoted to the basics of scientific programming with Python is included. A parallel edition using Matlab instead of Python is also available.

Last but not least, each chapter is accompanied by an extensive set of course-tested exercises and solutions.

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Last but not least, each chapter is accompanied by an extensive set of course-tested exercises and solutions.

About the Author

Professor Anders Malthe-Sørenssen is a professor of physics at the University of Oslo, where his research interests are focused on the physics of geological processes. His current teaching activity focuses on revitalizing the teaching of undergraduate science courses by seamless integration of computational methods in order to give students an early contact with research and industrially relevant problems.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Springer; 2015th edition (June 11, 2015)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 603 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3319195956
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3319195957
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 22.5 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.14 x 1.31 x 9.21 inches

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Joe

expect a few errors

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2021

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I'm glad that I already had Python installed and knew a little bit about it. There's not much in the way of help in that regard if you are working on your own which I am. Check out Anaconda and Spyder before you get the book.
I'm only up to page 19 so I'm not into the physics yet, but there are a few typos and errors and one thing I just ran into where a python command "hold" in the plot routines has been deprecated so doesn't work in my version of Spyder. Otherwise it seems well written and so far I'm able to follow the examples. BTW, I am a retired engineer with over 30 years experience with many of those writing assembler and C code. So I'm not a complete newbie to science and programming.
Just a note that the links in the book are no longer valid. Springer finally provided an updated link. Replace uio.no in the link with universitetetioslo.no
Then you've got to copy whatever data there is and paste it into a text editor to use it.

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Life long learner

Great introduction to python

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2018

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Great way to learn python and classical mechanics at the same time.

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mnl

This is very useful for any instructor interested in including numerical work into ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2018

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This book had some creative examples and detail numerical solutions. This is very useful for any instructor interested in including numerical work into their lectures, even if python is not the tool of choice.

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Mikkel

Too many errors

Reviewed in Germany on February 5, 2021

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Decent book but I had higher hopes. There are simply just too many typos! E.g. on page 59 the author uses Euler's method to find the position of 'The Rocket' but uses the wrong numbers compared to the given tabel on page 58 (and Graph on fig 4.7 page 59), there is also a unit mistanke on page 59 "where acceleration a(0.1s)=7.0m/s" ... Bah. I did a quick look forward in the book and I found a mistanke on page 270 equation (10.5): there is missing the factor of mass, m, in the last line and the definite integral dosen't make much sense in (10.6)... I found these in the first hour of use... I wonder how many errors there are?? I cannot find any errata! I even looked on Oslo university homepage. I looked through the last 6 years of the Course called "FYS-MEK1110 – Mekanikk" that this book was written for and there is no such errata given. It is indeed sad because I was looking forward to restudy classical mechanics using Python...

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endlich mal Oberstufen Physik mit Python

Reviewed in Germany on February 28, 2017

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Dieses Werk führt in die Oberstufen Physik ein und zeigt die virtuelle Physik mit Python. Ich kann das sehr empfehlen.

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