Classical Mechanics An Introduction /

• Main Author: Strauch, Dieter (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009.
• Subjects: Physics.; Dynamics.; Ergodic theory.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Geometry.; Mechanics.; Mechanics, Applied.; Theoretical and Applied Mechanics.; Applications of Mathematics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory.

This upper-level undergraduate and beginning graduate textbook primarily covers the theory and application of Newtonian and Lagrangian, but also of Hamiltonian mechanics. In addition, included are elements of continuum mechanics and the accompanying classical field theory, wherein four-vector notati...

Table of Contents:

• The Newtonian Mechanics of Point-Mass Systems: General Properties
• Newtonian Mechanics: First Applications
• Lagrangian Mechanics
• Harmonic Vibrations
• Central Potentials and the Kepler Problem
• Collision and Scattering Problems
• Moving Reference Frames
• Dynamics of a Rigid Body
• Hamiltonian Dynamics
• Mechanics of Continua.