Classical mechanics /
Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko.
- 3rd ed. twenty first impression
- Uttar Pradesh : Pearson Education, 2018
- xviii, 646 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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