Classical mechanics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Addison Wesley,
[2002]
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of 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.