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essentially the plan that was adopted.
lt was expected that the necessary editing would be minor, mainly consisting
of supplying fgures, and checking punctuation and grammair; it was to be done by
one or two graduate students on a part-time basis. nfortunately, this expectation
was short-lived. It was, In fact, a major editorial operation to transform the
verbatim transcript into readable form, even without the reorganization or revision
of the subject matter that was sometimes required. Purthermore, it was not a Job
for a technical editor or for a graduate student, but one that required the close
attention of a professional physicist for from ten to twenty hours per lecturel
The dificulty of the editorial task, together with the need to place the material
in the hands of the students as soon as possible, set a strict limit upon the amount
of “polishing” of the material that could be accomplished, and thus we were
forced to aim toward a preliminary but technically correct product that could
be used immediately, rather than one that might be considered fñnal or ñnished.
Because of an urgent need for more copies for our students, and a heartening
Interest on the part of instructors and students at several other institutions, we
decided to publish the material in its preliminary form rather than wait for a
further major revision which might never occur. We have no illusions as to the
completeness, smoothness, or logical organization of the material; in fact, we
plan several minor modifications in the course in the immediate future, and we
hope that it will not become static in form or content.
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In addition to the lectures, which constitute a centrally important part of the
COurse, it was necessary also to provide suitable exercises to develop the students'
experience and ability, and suitable experiments to provide first-hand contact
with the lecture material in the laboratory. Neither of these aspecfs 1s in as
advanced a state as the lecture material, but considerable progress has been made.
Some exercises were made up as the lectures progressed, and these were expanded
and amplifed for use in the following year. However, because we are not yet
satisfed that the exercises provide sufficient variety and depth of application of
the lecture material to make the student fully aware of the tremendous power
being placed at his disposal, the exercises are published separately in a less
permanent form in order to encourage frequent revision.
A number of new experiments for the new course have been devised by
Professor H. V. Neher. Among these are several which utilize the extremely
low friction exhibited by a gas bearing: a novel linear air trough, with which
quantitative measurements of one-dimensional motion, impacts, and harmonic
motion can be made, and an air-supported, air-driven Maxwell top, with which
accelerated rotational motion and gyroscopic precession and nutation can be
studied. "The development of new laboratory experiments is expected to continue
for a considerable period of time.
The revision program was under the direction of Professors R. B. Leighton,
H. V. Neher, and M. Sands. Officially participating in the program were Professors
R. P. Feynman, Œ. Neugebauer, R. M. Sutton, H. P. Stabler,* F. Strong, and R.
Vogt, from the division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, and Professors
T. Caughey, M. Plesset, and C. H. Wilts from the division of Engineering Science.
The valuable assistance of all those contributing to the revision program is
gratefully acknowledged. We are particularly indebted to the Eord Eoundation,
without whose financial assistance this program could not have been carried out.
HROBERT B. LEIGHTON
Juhụ, 1968
* 1961-62, while on leave from Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
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CHAPTER 1. ATOMS IN MOTION
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CHAPTER 2. BASIC PHYSICS
CHAPTER 3. “HE RELATION OF PHYSICS TO ÔTHER SCIENCES
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CHAPTER 4. CONSERVATION OF ENERGY
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CHAPTER 5ð. TIME AND DISTANCE
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CHAPTER 6. PROBABILITY
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CHAPTER 8. MOTION
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CHAPTER 9._ NEWTON”S LAWS OF DYNAMICS
CHAPTER 10. CONSERVATION OF MOMENTUM
CHAPTER 11. VECTORS
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CHAPTER 13. WORK AND POTENTIAL ENERGY (A)
CHAPTER 14. WORK AND POTENTIAL ENERGY (CONGLUSION)
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CHAPTER 15. “HE SPECIAL THEORY OF RÑELATIVITY
CHAPTER 16. RELATIVISTIC EBNERGY AND MOMENTUM
CHAPTER 17. SPACE-TIME
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CHAPTER 18. ROTATION IN TWO DIMENSIONS
CHAPTER 19. CENTER OF MASS; MOMENT OF Í[NERTIA
CHAPTER 20. ROTATION IN SPACE
CHAPTER 21. “HE HARMONIC Ô§CILLATOR
CHAPTER 22. ALGEBRA
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CHAPTER 23. RESONANCE
CHAPTER 24. 'ERANSIENTS
CHAPTER 25. LINEAR SYSTEMS AND REVIEW
CHAPTER 26. (OPTICS: THE PRINCIPLE OF LEAST TIME
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