Foundations of classical mechanics /
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2019.
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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.