A modern approach to classical mechanics
By: Harald Iro.
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Singapore; River Edge, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 442
Subjects: Mechanics.; Statistical mechanics.
Work titles: Mechanik.
Notes: "The first German edition of this book appeared in 1993, published by the Universitätsverlag R. Trauner, Linz, Austria"--P. vi.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-436) and index.
Table of contents: title: The foundations of mechanics; title: One-dimensional motion of a particle; title: Encountering peculiar motion in two dimensions; title: Motion in a central force field; title: The gravitational interaction of two bodies; title: Collisions of particles. Scattering; title: Changing the frame of reference; title: Lagrangian mechanics; title: Conservation laws and symmetries in many particle systems; title: The rigid body; title: Small oscillations; title: Hamilton's canonical formulation of mechanics; title: Hamilton-Jacobi theory; title: From integrable to non-integrable systems; title: Coordinate systems and some vector analysis; title: Rotations and tensors; title: Green's functions.