Title: Classical mechanics /
Authors: Matzner, Richard A. 1942-; Shepley, Lawrence C., 1939-
Publisher: Prentice Hall,
Year: 1991
Subjects: Mechanics; Physics; Astrophysics; Mathematical physics
Contents: Preface -- Paradigm -- Mathematical and kinematical preliminaries -- Spacetime -- Lagrangians and lagrangian systems -- Central force fields -- Equivalent lagrangians -- Rotation and spinors -- Dynamics of rigid body motion -- Hamiltonian systems -- Poisson brackets -- Canonical transformations -- Infinitesimal canonical transformations -- Separable Hamiltonians and the action-angle formulation -- Canonical perturbation theory -- Small oscillations and continuous systems.