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MECHANICS AND PROPERTIES OF MATTER
Dr. A. B. Gupta
First Published: 2007
Fifth Edition: 2020
Reprints: 9
ISBN: 978-81-946982-2-7
Pages: 832

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 had been Professor and Head, Physics Unit and Dean, Indian Statistical Institute, an internationally reputed research institute and a deemed Central University. He had his education from matriculation to M.Sc. under Calcutta University and did his Ph.D. from the same university under self- guidance. He had the fortune to be associated with academic luminaries as their student or junior colleague. They are Professors SN Bose, MN Saha, SK Mitra, PC Mahalanobish, JBS Haldane, and CR Rao. He has over more than three decades of experience in teaching and research. He has guided 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 of books on higher physics and two research monographs. He attended a large number of international and national conferences and delivered invited talks. He visited, mostly with academic assignments, Japan, UK, France, Switzerland, Italy, and USA. In the eighties, Dr. Gupta gravitated into the field of ‘Bioengineering and Skin’ to work in investigative dermatology by applying physics. His papers drew the attention of dermatologists both for their contents and the flavor of physics. He was made a life member of the Indian Association of Dermatologists (IADVL) and a member of their Innovative Committee. He was for a few years an Associate Editor of the Indian Journal of Dermatology. In recognition of his contribution to Bioengineering, he was admitted in 1984 to the membership of the International Society of Bioengineering, UK. In 1985, he was invited by the National Hansen Institute, Carville, USA 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 Literature in 1961. He is a social activist in the field of blood donation and popularisation of science and founded a number of science clubs, libraries, schools, and a degree college. In appreciation of all these, he was felicited by Indian Medical Association. Dr. Gupta is 88, but physically fit mentally alert, and academically active.