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Elapsed Time between Distant Events
This section provides a thought experiment to demonstrate that elapsed times between two events that happen at different locations in a moving frame may be observed as contracted or dilated from a stationary frame.
2022-11-07, ∼201🔥, 0💬

Phase Portrait of Simple Harmonic Motion
This section provides phase portrait examples for a single object in simple harmonic motion.
2022-10-09, ∼200🔥, 0💬

Who Is Newton
This section provides a quick introduction of Issac Newton and his main contribution to physics, Newton's Laws of Motion.
2022-10-04, ∼200🔥, 0💬

Moving Frames and Galilean Transformation
This section provides a quick introduction of the Galilean transformation between two frames that are move relative to each other.
2022-10-16, ∼193🔥, 0💬

Hamiltonian in Cartesian Coordinates
This section provides a quick introduction on Hamiltonian for a single object in Cartesian coordinates.
2022-10-05, ∼193🔥, 0💬

What Is Distance
This section introduces distance between two objects. The standard unit of distance is called 'meter', which is the length travelled by light in 1/299,792,458 of a second.
2022-10-05, ∼191🔥, 0💬

Introduction of Space
This chapter provides an introduction of space. Topics include what is space; standard unit to measure distance in space; how long is one 'meter'.
2022-11-02, ∼190🔥, 0💬

Relation of Momentum and Potential Energy
This section describes the Relation of Momentum and Potential Energy.
2022-10-07, ∼190🔥, 0💬

Newton's First Law of Motion
This section introduces Newton's First Law of Motion - If the net force acting on an object is zero, then the velocity of the object is constant.
2022-10-05, ∼190🔥, 0💬

What Is Speed
This section provides a quick introduction of speed, which is a derived property of a moving object by calculating the distance the object has moved within a single unit of time.
2022-10-29, ∼189🔥, 0💬

Demonstration of Time Dilation - Bob on the Ground
This section continues the thought experiment to demonstrate time dilation with Bob observing the same bouncing light pulse clock installed on a moving train from a stationary frame.
2022-10-06, ∼188🔥, 0💬

About This Book
This section provides some detailed information about this book - Physics Notes - Herong's Tutorial Notes.
2022-10-11, ∼187🔥, 0💬

Assumptions of Special Relativity
This section describes the two assumptions for the special theory of relativity proposed by Albert Einstein in 1905.
2022-10-10, ∼186🔥, 0💬

Lagrangian in Cartesian Coordinates
This section provides a quick introduction to the Lagrangian in Cartesian coordinates, expressed in terms of r, r' and t.
2022-12-08, ∼185🔥, 0💬

Introduction of Generalized Coordinates
This chapter provides an introduction of Generalized Coordinates. Topics include introduction of generalized position, velocity and momentum; Lagrange Equations and Hamilton Equations in generalized coordinates; Legendre Transformation.
2022-11-05, ∼185🔥, 0💬

Introduction of Spacetime
This chapter provides an introduction of spacetime. Topics include definition of spacetime; world line of an object in a spacetime frame; light cone of an event in a spacetime frame.
2022-11-05, ∼183🔥, 0💬

Introduction of Hamiltonian
This chapter provides an introduction of Hamiltonian. Topics include introduction of Hamiltonian; energy conservation; conservative system; free fall motion; simple harmonic motion; simple pendulum motion, momentum and Hamilton Equations.
2022-10-13, ∼183🔥, 0💬

Falling Ball in Elevator Frame of Reference
This section provides an example of a falling ball in the elevator frame of reference, where we need to add a fictitious force to cancel out the gravitational force to make Newton's First and Second Laws of Motion valid.
2022-10-07, ∼182🔥, 0💬

What Is Space
This section provides a quick introduction of space, which is a property of our universe that gives us a sense of the size of an object and the distance between two objects.
2022-10-05, ∼181🔥, 0💬

What Is Coordinate System
This section provides an introduction of coordinate system, which is a mathematical model associated with a frame of reference that converts every location in the frame into set of numeric value or values.
2022-10-21, ∼179🔥, 0💬

Newton's Laws of Motion
This chapter provides an introduction of Newton's Laws of Motion. Topics include Newton's First, Second and Third Laws of Motion; dependency on frame of reference; the gravitational force; the fictitious force.
2022-11-07, ∼178🔥, 0💬

What Is the Relativity of Simultaneity
This section provides a quick introduction on the relativity of simultaneity, a phenomenon where two events happening in two different locations that occur simultaneously in one reference frame, occur non-simultaneously in another reference frame that is relatively moving.
2022-10-09, ∼178🔥, 0💬

2-Dimensional Cartesian Coordinate System
This section provides an introduction of 2-dimensional Cartesian coordinate systems, which uses perpendicular projections on 2 perpendicular axes to describe any locations in the frame of reference.
2022-10-08, ∼178🔥, 0💬

Hamilton's Principle - Stationary Action
This section provides an introduction of Action, an integral of Lagrangian function of a given system between two time instances.
2022-11-30, ∼177🔥, 0💬

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