A Modern Approach to Classical Mechanics

by Iro, Harald

• ISBN13: 9789812382139
• ISBN10: 9812382135
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-02-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book is the result of lectures on 'Classical Mechanics' as the first part of a basic course in Theoretical Physics. These lectures were given by the author to undergraduate students in their second year at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. The book is also addressed to lecturers in this field and to physicists who want to obtain a new perspective on classical mechanics.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The foundations of mechanics	p. 11
One-dimensional motion of a particle	p. 27
Encountering peculiar motion in two dimensions	p. 59
Motion in a central force field	p. 85
The gravitational interaction of two bodies	p. 119
Collisions of particles. Scattering	p. 145
Changing the frame of reference	p. 167
Lagrangian mechanics	p. 191
Conservation laws and symmetries in many particle systems	p. 225
The rigid body	p. 249
Small oscillations	p. 291
Hamilton's canonical formulation of mechanics	p. 317
Hamilton-Jacobi theory	p. 347
From integrable to non-integrable systems	p. 381
In retrospect	p. 6
Coordinate systems and some vector analysis	p. 413
Rotations and tensors	p. 421
Green's functions	p. 425
Bibliography	p. 433
Index	p. 437
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