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Mechanics & Special Relativity - Interactive Textbook

Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution-NonCommercial (Unless stated otherwise)

An interactive, open-access Mechanics & Special Relativity textbook designed for physics students at the bachelor level.

📖 Read the Book

The complete interactive textbook will be available at https://interactivetextbooks.tudelft.nl/mecharela once it is published through our university's library. but is currently available here

🎯 About This Textbook

This textbook is suited for university level physics students with a basic prior knowledge on physics, often taught in secondary education.

Key Features

  • Interactive Learning: Embedded python applets and simulations provide hands-on experience with physics concepts
  • Modern Design: Built using Jupyter Book 2.0 for an engaging digital experience
  • Open Access: Freely available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license (unless stated otherwise)

Topics Covered

The book covers the following chapters:

Mechanics

  1. Newton's laws
  2. Work & Energy
  3. Angular Momentum, Torque & Central Forces
  4. Conservation Laws & Galilean Transformations
  5. Oscillations
  6. Collisions

Special Relativity 7. Lorentz Transformation
8. Velocity Transformation
9. Spacetime and 4vectors
10. 4-Momentum
11. Relativistic dynamics and collisions

🛠️ Building the Book

This repository contains the source files for building the interactive textbook using Jupyter Book 2.0.

Prerequisites

  • Python 3.7+
  • Jupyter Book 2.0 or MystMD

📁 Repository Structure

├──┐ myst.yml             # Jupyter Book configuration & Table of contents
   ├── index.md          # landing page
   ├──┐ content/
      ├── credits.md     # Book introduction
      ├──┐ classic/       
         ├── ...         # Chapters on classical mechanics
      ├──┐ special        
         ├── ...         # Chapters on special relativity

      ├──┐ images/
         ├── ...         # images
         ├── raw/        # svg and python 

      ├──┐ pysim/        
         ├── ...         # python simulations

👥 Authors and Contributors

This book was created by a team of lecturers from the Delft Institute of Applied Mathematics at TU Delft University of Technology.

Principal Authors

Contributors

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions to improve this textbook! Please feel free to:

  • Report issues or suggest improvements
  • Provide feedback on the interactive elements

📄 Licenses

This book is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, unless stated otherwise.

You are free to:

  • Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format
  • Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any non-commercial purpose provided proper attribution is given.

All python simulations and scripts are licensed under CC0, meaning these can be used without limitations and attribution.

📧 Contact

For questions about this textbook, please contact Freek Pols.

TU Delft | Faculty of Appled Sciences