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MECHANICS AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER
Dr. A. B. Gupta
First Published: 2007
Sixth Edition: 2023
Reprints: 9
ISBN: 978-93-94107-90-8
Pages: 880

CONTENTS

Part I: Classical Mechanics
- Basic Ideas: Velocity and Acceleration
- Mechanics of a Particle
- Mechanics of a System of Particles
- Collisions
- Rotating Frame of Reference
- Motion under Central Forces
- Lagrange’s and Hamilton’s Formulation
- Calculus of variation: Hamilton’s principle
- Transformations and Brackets
- Small Oscillations
- Dynamics of Rigid Bodies

Part II: Properties of Matter
- Units and Dimensions
- Gravitation and Gravity
- Elasticity
- Mechanics of Ideal fluids
- Surface Tension
- Viscosity

ABOUT THE BOOK: Provides a clear, precise, and up-to-date introduction. Carefully balances the concepts, theory, and experimental data. Distinctive presentation style combines clarity with admirable rigour. Pedagogically designed to make learning innovative and effective. A plethora of problems of graded difficulty, both solved and for practice are included in the book.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Dr. A.B. Gupta was Professor and Head of the Physics Unit and Dean of the Indian Statistical Institute, an internationally reputed research institute and a deemed Central University. Graduating with Honours in Physics from Presidency College, Calcutta he completed his M.Sc. and Ph.D. from Calcutta University. He did his Ph.D. under self-guidance. He had the fortune to be associated with academic luminaries either as their student or junior colleague. They are Professors S.N. Bose, M.N. Saha, S.K. Mitra, P.C. Mahalanobis, J.B.S. Haldane and C.R. Rao. With more than three decades of teaching and research experience, he supervised a number of Ph.D.’s and published about 50 research papers in various journals – national and international. He has authored more than a dozen books on higher physics and two research monographs. He attended a large number of international and national conferences and delivered invited talks. He visited, with academic assignments, Japan, U.K., France, Switzerland, Italy, and U.S.A.       
 
In the eighties, Dr. A.B. Gupta gravitated into the field of ‘Bioengineering and Skin’. His papers in investigative dermatology by applying physics drew the attention of dermatologists both for their contents and flavour of physics. He was made a life member of the Indian Association of Dermatologists (IADVL), a member of the Innovative Committee, and honoured by their prestigious ‘Ambadi Oration Award’. In recognition of his contribution to Bioengineering, he was admitted in 1984 to the membership of the International Society of Bioengineering, U.K. In 1985, he was invited by the National Hansen Institute in Carville, Louisiana, U.S.A. to deliver a series of lectures on ‘Measurement of insensitivity in Hansen’s disease’ by his new device ‘Thermosense’. Science apart, he is known for his literary activities for which he received the National Award in Children's Literature in 1961. He was a social activist in the field of blood donation and the popularisation of science and founded a number of science clubs, libraries, schools, and a Degree college. In appreciation of all these, he was felicitated by the Indian Medical Association.