Geometric Mechanics
Subtitle: Toward a Unification of Classical Physics
Edition: 2 Rev Enl edition
Publisher: Wiley-VCH
Published: July 27, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 605
ISBN-13: 9783527406838
Subjects: Classical mechanics; Geometry; Mechanics - General; Science / Mechanics; Science; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: An introductory textbook on Lagrangian mechanics (which this is not) might be expected to begin by announcing that the reader is assumed to be familiar with Newtonian mechanics-kinematics, force, momentum and energy and their conservation, simple harmonic motion, moments of inertia, and so on.