| Description |
xv, 733 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Preface -- Prologue -- Newtonian mechanics -- Newton's analysis of central forces -- Conservation laws -- The one-body and two-body problems -- Rigid bodies -- Constraints -- Philosophical and historical questions -- Oscillations -- Rigid body motion -- Non-inertial systems and fictitious forces -- Friction, friend and foe -- Analytical mechanics -- Variational principles -- Small oscillations -- Light -- The cotangent bundle -- The interplay of mechanics and optics -- Hamilton-Jacobi theory -- Canonical transformations -- Symplectic manifolds -- Liouville integrability -- Epilogue |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 693-704) and index |
| Subject |
Mechanics -- Mathematical models
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Physics
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| ISBN |
9780914098324 |
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0914098322 |
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