Shankar R. Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics

Yale University Press, USA, 2014. — 461 p. — (The Open Yale Courses Series) — ISBN: 0300192207Professor R. Shankar, a well-known physicist and contagiously enthusiastic educator, was among the first to offer a course through the innovative Open Yale Course program. His popular online video lectures on introductory physics have been viewed over a million times. In this concise and self-contained book based on his online Yale course, Shankar explains the fundamental concepts of physics from Galileo’s and Newton’s discoveries to the twentieth-century’s revolutionary ideas on relativity and quantum mechanics.
The book begins at the simplest level, develops the basics, and reinforces fundamentals, ensuring a solid foundation in the principles and methods of physics. It provides an ideal introduction for college-level students of physics, chemistry, and engineering, for motivated AP Physics students, and for general readers interested in advances in the sciences.The Structure of Mechanics
Motion in Higher Dimensions
Newton’s Laws I
Newton’s Laws II
Law of Conservation of Energy
Conservation of Energy in d=2
The Kepler Problem
Multi-particle Dynamics
Rotational Dynamics I
Rotational Dynamics II
Rotational Dynamics III
Special Relativity I: The Lorentz Transformation
Special Relativity II: Some Consequences
Special Relativity III: Past, Present, and Future
Four-momentum
Mathematical Methods
Simple Harmonic Motion
Waves I
Waves II
Fluids
Heat
Thermodynamics I
Thermodynamics II
Entropy and Irreversibility