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Title
How mechanics shaped the modern world : a contextual introduction to concepts and applications / David H. Allen.
Edition
Second edition.
ISBN
9783031277498 (electronic bk.)
303127749X (electronic bk.)
9783031277481
3031277481
Published
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (410 pages) : illustrations (black and white).
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-27749-8 doi
Call Number
TA350
Dewey Decimal Classification
620.1
Summary
This updated and augmented second edition covers the history of mechanics in such a way as to explain how this all-important discipline shaped our world. Like the first edition, Dr. Allen presents the material in an engaging, accessible manner, with many historic insights and thorough explanations of attending concepts. The text retains its coverage of classical mechanics, essentially Newtonian mechanics, and adds chapters on three additional topics that go well beyond classical mechanics: relativity, quantum/nanomechanics, and biomechanics. Contextualizes mechanics from the ancients, through Newton, and up to 21st Century nanotechnology Explains how these new developments in mechanics will continue to alter our world Appropriate for undergraduate students and faculty as well as lay readers interested in physics and engineering .
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Chapter 1 Mechanics and Our Ancestors
Chapter 2 The Greeks
Chapter 3 The Romans
Chapter 4 Mechanics in the Middle Ages
Chapter 5 The Artistic Renaissance
Chapter 6 Finding Our Way
Chapter 7 Mechanics Reborn
Chapter 8 Music and Measuring
Chapter 9 Continuum Mechanics, Art and Structures
Chapter 10 Weather
Chapter 11 Life Cycles
Chapter 12 The Quality of Our Lives
Chapter 13 Mechanics Today
Chapter 14 Relativity
Chapter 15 Quantum Mechanics
Chapter 16 Bio mechanics
Chapter 17 The Future of Mechanics.
