Foundations of classical mechanics /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Deshmukh, P. C. (Pranawa C.) (Author)
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Laws of mechanics and symmetry principles
  • Mathematics--the very language of physics!
  • Real effects of pseudo-forces--description of motion in accelerated frame of reference
  • Small oscillations and wave motion
  • Damped and driven oscillations; resonances
  • The variational principle
  • Angular momentum and rigid body dynamics
  • The gravitational interaction in Newtonian mechanics
  • Complex behaviour of simple system
  • Gradient operator, methods of fluid mechanics and electrodynamics
  • Rudiments of fluid mechanics
  • Basic principles of electrodynamics
  • Introduction to the special theory of relativity
  • A glimpse of the general theory of relativity.