Overview
- Clear, straightforward and intuitive introduction to undergraduate physics
- 74 specially prepared video-films showing experimental setup and progress
- More than 80 detailed problems with solutions deepen and reinforce the learning
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Mechanics
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Vibrations and Waves
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Thermodynamics
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About this book
This completely revised and updated modern edition retains his style and clarity in an up-to-date format. The accompanying videos document the original demonstrations and add many modern touches, bringing to life the numerous illustrations in the book and providing an instructive and motivating complement to the text. They are linked to the corresponding topics in the text and can be accessed directly online from the e-book version.
Volume I covers elementary mechanics, acoustics (vibrations and waves) and thermodynamics.The exercises provide an aid to understanding the material as well as complementary information.
This book addresses students of physics and of other natural sciences and engineering, but also teachers and lecturers, who will profit from Pohl's many demonstration experiments, and other interested readers who want to gain an understanding of the fundamentals of physics from an experimental viewpoint.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Klaus Lüders was born in 1936 in Cologne, Germany. He studied physics in Göttingen, Munich (LMU), Aachen and Karlsruhe, where he completed his doctorate in 1965. He obtained the Habilitation in 1972 from the Freie Universität Berlin, and was professor of experimental physics at the FU Berlin from 1972. He spent research stays among others at Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan and at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His areas of specialization include solid-state and low-temperature physics, superconductivity and superfluid helium.
Robert Otto Pohl was born in 1929 in Göttingen, Germany. He studied physics in Göttingen, Freiburg and Erlangen, and received his doctorate there in 1957. He was professor of physics at Cornell University from 1968, and Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus from 2000. He was guest professor at the RWTH Aachen, the TH Stuttgart and the University of Canterbury in NewZealand, among others. His area of specialization is solid-state physics, particularly lattice vibrations in crystalline and amorphous materials.
William Dean Brewer was born in 1943 in Boise, Idaho, USA. He studied chemistry and mathematics at the University of Oregon and received his PhD in physical chemistry from UC Berkeley in 1970. He obtained the Habilitation at the FU Berlin in 1975 and was professor of experimental physics there from 1977. His research areas are low-temperature and nuclear solid-state physics, and magnetism in thin films and on surfaces. He has translated over a dozen textbooks and monographs from German to English.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Pohl's Introduction to Physics
Book Subtitle: Volume 1: Mechanics, Acoustics and Thermodynamics
Editors: Klaus Lüders, Robert O. Pohl
Translated by: William Brewer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40046-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-40044-0Published: 25 July 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-40046-4Published: 13 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 525
Number of Illustrations: 509 b/w illustrations
Topics: Classical Mechanics, Acoustics, Thermodynamics