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Mechanics textbook advice [duplicate]

I am currently looking for a good textbook on Newtonian mechanics but am unable to find anything that suits my specific needs. I have already done an advanced high school mechanics course and would ...
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Kinematics and dynamics of a ballistic pendulum

In which Physics textbooks can one find comprehensive content on the kinematics and dynamics of a ballistic pendulum both in the approximation of the mass and a distributed mass with uniform density?
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References describing how the initial angular displacement of a pendulum affects its damping ratio?

I'm writing a research paper exploring how damping ratio of a simple pendulum relates on its initial angular displacement. In order to validate the findings of my paper, I am required to include a ...
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Book Recommendation for Hard Problems in Mechanics

My search for a book with extremely hard physics problems(conceptual or a problem to solve) had led me to a couple books like "Pathfinder for Olympiad and JEE (Advanced) Physics", "I.E ...
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Mechanics problems book [duplicate]

Please suggest me some books on Problems in Classical Mechanics. P.S. - Please suggest books of the level high school or pre college or at max first year college books.
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Is there any game for understanding elevator physics?

I'm a physics teacher and I'm wondering if there's any game for physics elevator problems (weight in accelerating elevator) that the student can play with to better understand in what situations the ...
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Newtonian Mechanics in first-order logic

I asked a similar question before, but it did not give the answer I was looking for, so I will clarify what I actually want in this question. H. Andreka created a formal first-order logic theory that ...
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Book recommendation for classical Newtonian gravity

I’m looking for a good textbook that covers Newtonian Gravity in detail (preferably advanced undergrad/grad level). One that covers important things like Calculating trajectories of satellites around ...
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Middle school introductory Newtonian mechanics textbooks?

Are there middle school introductory textbooks on Newtonian mechanics tailored to students taking pre-algebra or algebra concurrently? Specifically: Newtonian mechanics: inertia, momentum, forces, ...
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Is there any paper/experiment on the deterministic behavior of coin-tossing?

I do not have background in Physics but Statistics. I am working on a small project on philosophy of probabilistic modeling. Of course, we often model coin-tossing as if it comes from a Bernoulli ...
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Kindly suggest solved and unsolved question bank on Mechanics

I am having difficulty understanding the physics where force and motion(both translation and rotation) is considered. I am unable to visualise and develop an understanding when it comes to motions of ...
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Where can I find the theory of lift? [closed]

Website, paper, book, anything that contains the whole theory.
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Reference request - book on Euclidean space and rigid body kinematics

Ideally, I'd like a comprehensive book that encompasses both subjects: it builds the notion of "space" as related to our physical world (no relativity, though) from the ground up, giving it ...
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Program to generate graph of spring-mass-damper system

For a school project, I've been researching mass-spring-damper systems. For this I did an experiment in which I basically filmed a spring with a mass attached to it that went up and down and ...
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How to visualize Kinematics or Classical Physics?

Is there a software or a website to visualize Kinematics? For example, I want to visualize different problems on pulley system. Is there a simulation app?

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