Chapter 3 Laws of classical physics
Chapter contents
3.1 Aim
The chapter introduces the reader to some of the laws of classical physics. An understanding of these laws will aid in understanding some of the later chapters of the book. (Some of the physics in the later chapters of this book (e.g. pair production as an absorption mechanism) cannot be explained in terms of the laws of classical physics.) Before these concepts are considered (Ch. 20 onwards), the laws of modern physics will be considered (in Ch. 16).
