Classical mechanics
By: Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko.
Contributors: Poole, Charles P.; Safko, John L.
Edition: 3rd ed.
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Published: 2002
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 638
Subjects: Mechanics, Analytic.
Description: This revision retains the best features of the Second Edition while including new material reflecting advances in nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and fractal geometries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 617-621) and indexes.
Table of contents: label: 1
title: Survey of the Elementary Principles
pagenum: 1; label: 2
title: Variational Principles and Lagrange's Equations
pagenum: 34; label: 3
title: The Central Force Problem
pagenum: 70; label: 4
title: The Kinematics of Rigid Body Motion
pagenum: 134; label: 5
title: The Rigid Body Equations of Motion
pagenum: 184; label: 6
title: Oscillations
pagenum: 238; label: 7
title: The Classical Mechanics of the Special Theory of Relativity
pagenum: 276; label: 8
title: The Hamilton Equations of Motion
pagenum: 334; label: 9
title: Canonical Transformations
pagenum: 368; label: 10
title: Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Action-Angle Variables
pagenum: 430; label: 11
title: Classical Chaos
pagenum: 483; label: 12
title: Canonical Perturbation Theory
pagenum: 526; label: 13
title: Introduction to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations for Continuous Systems and Fields
pagenum: 558; label: Appendix A
title: Euler Angles in Alternate Conventions and Cayley-Klein Parameters
pagenum: 601; label: Appendix B
title: Groups and Algebras
pagenum: 605; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 617; title: Author Index
pagenum: 623; title: Subject Index
pagenum: 625