Classical Mechanics /
Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko
- 3rd ed.
- New Delhi : Pearson, 2002.
- xviii, 638 p.
6
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;