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Goldstein, Herbert

Classical mechanics - 3rd Ed. - Chennai: Pearson, c2016 - xii, 399 p.

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

ISBN: 9788131758915 9788131758915

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Physics: Mathematics: Analytic Mechanics

LC Class. No.: QA805