Classical Mechanics

R. Douglas Gregory

596 pages, parution le 04/04/2006

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This is an advanced text for first-year graduate students in physics and engineering taking a standard classical mechanics course. It is the first book to describe the subject in the context of the language and methods of modern nonlinear dynamics. The organising principle of the text is integrability vs. nonintegrability. Flows in phase space and transformations are introduced early and systematically and are applied throughout the text. The standard integrable problems of elementary physics are analysed from the standpoint of flows, transformations, and integrability. This approach then allows the author to introduce most of the interesting ideas of modern nonlinear dynamics via the most elementary nonintegrable problems of Newtonian mechanics. This text will be of value to physicists and engineers taking graduate courses in classical mechanics. It will also interest specialists in nonlinear dynamics, mathematicians, engineers and system theorists.

Modern graduate text on subject taught to all undergraduates in physics
Based on course taught at the University of Texas, Houston for many years
Author's earlier book sold very well

Sommaire

Preface
Newtonian mechanics of a single particle
Multi-particle systems
Analytical mechanics
Further topics
Appendix: Centres of mass and moments of inertia
Answers to the problems

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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Cambridge University Press
Auteur(s)	R. Douglas Gregory
Parution	04/04/2006
Nb. de pages	596
Format	17 x 24,5
Couverture	Broché
Poids	1185g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780521534093
ISBN13	978-0-521-53409-3