Mechanics An Intensive Course /

• Main Authors: Chaichian, Masud (Author), Merches, Ioan (Author), Tureanu, Anca (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012.
• Subjects: Physics.; Applied mathematics.; Engineering mathematics.; Mechanics.; Applications of Mathematics.; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

Mechanics is one of the oldest and at the same time newest disciplines, in the sense that there are methods and principles developed first in mechanics but now widely used in almost all branches of physics: electrodynamics, quantum mechanics, classical and quantum field theory, special and general t...

Table of Contents:

• Foundations of Newtonian Mechanics
• The Principles of Analytical Mechanics
• Applications of the Lagrangian Formalism in the Study of Discrete Particle Systems
• Rigid Body Mechanics
• Hamiltonian Formalism
• Mechanics of Continuous Deformable Media
• Addendum: Post-Classical Mechanics.