phy1020.DVI

Appendix L Astronomical Data Table L-1. Astronomical constants. Description Symbol Value Astronomical unit AU 1:49597870 1011 m ...

Appendix M Unit Conversion Tables Time 1 dayD24 hoursD1440 minutesD86400 seconds 1 hourD60 minutesD3600 seconds 1 yearD31 557 60 ...

Area 1 acreD43560 ft^2 D4840 yd^2 D4046.8564224 m^2 1 mile^2 D640 acresD2.589988110336 km^2 1 areD100 m^2 1 hectareD 104 m^2 D2. ...

Temperature ıCD(ıF32/ 5 9 ıFDıC 9 5 C 32 KDıCC273:15 ıRDıFC459:67 Pressure 1 atmD101325 PaD1.01325 barD1013.25 millibarD760 ...

Figure M.1: Conversion chart for kitchen measurements. (Credit: S.B. Lattin Design.) ...

Appendix N Angular Measure N.1 Plane Angle The most common unit of measure for plane angle is thedegree(ı), which is 1/360 of a ...

Ω θ Figure N.1: Relation between plane angleand solid anglefor a right circular cone. There is a simple relation between plane ...

Appendix O Vector Arithmetic A vectorAmay be written in cartesian (rectangular) form as ADAxiCAyjCA ́k; (O.1) whereiis aunit vec ...

Dot Product It is possible to multiply a vector by another vector, but there is more than one kind of multiplication between vec ...

Figure O.1: The vector cross productABis perpendicular to the plane ofAandB, and in the right-hand sense. (Credit: “Connected C ...

Appendix P Matrix Properties This appendix presents a brief summary of the properties of 2  2 and 3  3 matrices. 2 2 Matrices ...

3 3 Matrices Determinant The determinant of a 3  3 matrix is given by: det 0 @ abc def ghi 1 ADa.eifh/b.difg/Cc.dheg/: (P. ...

Appendix Q Moments of Inertia The table below shows the moments of inertia of several common uniform bodies. A very helpful theo ...

 Figure Q.1: Table of moments of inertia of uniform bodies. (Credit: University of Pennsylvania.) ...

Appendix R The Simple Plane Pendulum: Exact Solution The solution to the simple plane pendulum problem described in Chapter 8 is ...

R.2 Solution,.t/ ........................................ If the amplitude 0 is small, we can approximate sin, and find the ...

We can explicitly write out the first few terms of this series; the result is TD2 s L g  1 C 1 4 sin^2   0 2  C 9 64 sin^4 ...

Figure R.1: Ratio of a pendulum’s true periodTto its small-angle periodT 0 D2 p L=g, as a function of amplitude 0. For small a ...

References L.P. Fulcher and B.F. Davis, “Theoretical and experimental study of the motion of the simple pendu- lum”,Am. J. Phys ...

Appendix S CIE Chromaticity Coordinates In this appendix, we’ll look at some of the details of the CIE chromaticity diagram (Fig ...