Classical mechanics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Goldstein, Herbert, 1922-2005
Other Authors: Poole, Charles P., Safko, John L.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Addison Wesley, [2002]
Edition:3rd ed.
Subjects:
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.