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...cts of our sun then it is to study the gravity of any arbitrary star. This book will provide the basic mathematical foundation for the study of astrodynami == What Will This Book Cover? == ...

...ut electric charge, Coulomb's Law or Gauss' Law, see the wikibook [[Modern Physics]]. {{SideBox|For the rest of this book, the lower-case J ( j ) will be used to denote an imaginary number, and the ...

In classical physics, ω and ''k'' for light are related by In relativistic physics, we've seen that for waves with no special reference frame, such as light, ...

...amically included such that updates to those pages are also updated in the book. To keep both updated manually results in a duplication of effort. It is po [[Category:Modern Physics]] ...

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In classical physics we know that kinematics can often be described by a potential energy alone. ...y has the same form as the Hamiltonian we looked at for classical [[Modern Physics:Velocity dependent forces|velocity dependent forces]], so we know it predic ...

This is a brief listing of some constant values that are used in this book. Constants are currently listed in no particular order. See [http://physics.nist.gov/constants Constants Information at NIST]. ...

We know how to do this in classical physics, Notice that the in classical physics the relationship is linear; the graphs of these equations are straight line ...

In classical physics ''T′'' and τ are the same so this formula, as it stands, leads di ...from a moving source. However, by the principle of relativity, the laws of physics should be the same in the reference frame in which the observer is stationa ...

...must eliminate the concept of action at a distance from the repertoire of physics. The only way to have particles interact remotely and still conserve four-m [[Category:Modern Physics (book)]] ...

...tic waves, namely the spacetime vector or four-vector. Writing the laws of physics totally in terms of relativistic scalars and four-vectors ensures that they [[Category:Modern Physics (book)]] ...

In classical physics, velocities simply add. If an object moves with speed ''u'' in one referenc [[Category:Modern Physics (book)]] ...

...acuum must have this form, a much more restricted choice than in classical physics. [[Category:Modern Physics (book)]] ...

These two results are much simpler than in classical physics. [[Category:Modern Physics (book)]] ...

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When Murray Gell-Mann thought of the name for them, he came across the book "Finnegans Wake" by James Joyce. The line "Three quarks for Muster Mark!" appeared on page 383 of that book (the word ''quark'' there is a merging of the words ''quart'' and ''quack'' ...

...ic mass that are expressed as everyday kinetic energy so that the whole of physics is related to "relativistic" reasoning rather than Newton's empirical ideas In physics momentum is conserved within a closed system, the '''law of conservation of ...

...e twentieth century. It entirely replaced older theories such as Newtonian Physics and led to early Quantum Theory and General Relativity. ...Newtonian treatment of relative motion is incorrect and that the whole of physics must be rebuilt to account for this problem. ...

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...at there is a significant difference between analog and digital data. This book is going to consider both analog and digital topics, so it is worth taking #Students with a strong background in physics will recognize this concept as being the root word in "Quantum Mechanics". ...