Classical mechanics
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Classical mechanics
Prentice Hall, c1991
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Includes index
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Description
An advanced physics textbook that explains the mathematical and physical concepts of mechanics and their relationship to other branches of physics. Topics covered include tensor analysis, variational principles and Lagrangians, canonical transformations and estimation techniques.
Table of Contents
- Paradigm
- mathematical and kinematical preliminaries
- spacetime
- Lagrangians and Lagrangian systems
- central force fields
- equivalent lagrangians
- rotation and spinors
- dynamics of rigid body motion
- Hamiltonian systems
- poisson brackets
- canonical transformations
- infinitesimal canonical transformations
- separable Hamiltonians and the action-angle formulation
- canonical perturbation theory
- small oscillations and continuous systems.
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