physics analytical mechanics modern physics principles of classical mechanics
Genre
Textbooks/Оқулықтар/Учебная литература
Summary
This revision retains the best features of the Second Edition while including new material reflecting advances in nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and fractal geometries
Contents
Survey of the elementary principles -- Variational principles and Lagrange's equations -- The central force problem -- The kinematics of rigid body motion -- The rigid body equations of motion -- Oscillations -- The classical mechanics of the special theory of relativity -- The Hamilton equations of motion -- Canonical transformations -- Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and action-angle variables -- Classical chaos -- Canonical perturbation theory -- Introduction to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations for continuous systems and fields
