Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-234) and index.
Contents:
Surveying the skies -- Vectors -- Using vectors to describe motion -- The first conservation law: mass, momentum, and rocketry -- Collisions and the center of mass -- Acceleration, force, and Newton's laws -- Circular motion, simple harmonic motion, and time -- Kepler's laws and Newton's discovery of universal gravitation -- The second conservation law: energy -- Gravitational potential energy and orbital motion -- Rotations and the third conservation law: angular momentum -- Angular momentum and its conservation -- Torque, angular momentum, and the earth-moon system -- Dark matter, dark energy, and the fate of the universe.
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