Goldstein, Herbert,

Classical mechanics / Herbert Goldstein. - 2nd ed. - Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1980. - xiv, 672 p. ill. ; 24 cm. - Addison-Wesley series in physics .

Includes indexes.

1. Survey of the elementary principles
2. Variational principles and lagrange's equations
3. The central force problem
4. The kinematics of rigid body motion
5. The rigid body equations of motion
6. Oscillations
7. The classical mechanics of the special theory of relativity
8. The hamilton equations of motion
9. Canonical transformations
10. Hamilton jacobi theory and action angle variables
11. Classical chaos
12. Canonical perturbation theory
13. Introduction to the lagrangian and hamiltonian formulations for continuous systems and fields


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Mechanics, Analytic.

531 / G6244