Offbeat Physics

Machines, Meditations and Misconceptions
Herausgeber: Teixeira, P I C

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is a collection of articles on various topics in classical physics that have intrigued the authors and their students throughout the years. This is a book for all those who wish to learn physics beyond the textbooks and from more realistic problems, often occurring in engineering contexts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781032033938
• ISBN-10: 1032033932
• Artikelnr.: 71670330

Autorenporträt

Paulo Teixeira is a Coordinator Professor at Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa, Portugal.

Inhaltsangabe

Section 1: Machines
1. Dynamics of Braking Vehicles: from Coulomb Friction to Anti-lock Braking Systems
2. Simple Thermodynamics of Jet Engines
3. Surprises of the Transformer as a Coupled Oscillator System
4. Maximum Thermodynamic Power Coefficient of a Wind Turbine
Section 2: Meditations
5. Mutual Inductance between Piecewise Linear Loops
6. The Hertz Contact in Chain Elastic Collisions
7. Tilted Boxes on Inclined Planes
8. Magnetic Forces Acting on Rigid Current-Carrying Wires Placed in a Uniform Magnetic Field
9. Comparing a Current-carrying Circular Wire with Polygons of Equal Perimeter: Magnetic Field versus Magnetic Flux
10. The Elastic Bounces of a Sphere between Two Parallel Walls
11. How Short and Light Can a Simple Pendulum Be for Classroom Use?
12. Experiments with a Falling Rod
13. Oscillations of a Rectangular Plate
14. Bullet Block Experiment: Angular Momentum Conservation and Kinetic Energy Dissipation
15. The Continuity Equation in Ampère's Law
Section 3: Misconceptions
16. On the Relation between Angular Momentum and Angular Velocity
17. A Very Abnormal Normal Force
18. Rolling Cylinder on an Inclined Plane