Classical mechanics /
This classic book enables readers to make connections between classical and modern physics -- an indispensable part of a physicist's education. In this new edition, Beams Medal winner Charles Poole and John Safko have updated the book to include the latest topics, applications, and notation to...
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| Language: | English |
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Reading, Mass.
Addison-Wesley Pub. Co.
1980.
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| Edition: | Second edition. |
| Series: | Addison-Wesley series in physics.
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| Online Access: | Table of contents |
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Table of Contents:
- Survey of the elementary principles
- - Variational principles and Lagrange's equations
- - The two-body central force problem
- - The kinematics of rigid body motion
- - The rigid body equations of motion
- Small oscillations
- - Special relativity in classical mechanics
- - The Hamilton equations of motion
- - Canonical transformations
- - Hamilton-Jacobi theory
- - Canonical perturbation theory
- - Introduction to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations for continuous systems and fields.