Classical Mechanics / Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko
Material type: TextPublication details: Pearson, New Delhi : 2002.Edition: 3rd edDescription: xviii, 638 pISBN:- 9788178085661
- 530 G5781
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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;
Appendix A: Euler angles in alternate conventions and Cayley-Klein parameters;
Appendix B: Groups and algebras;
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