Theoretical mechanics
Subtitle: an introduction to mathematical physics
By: [by] Joseph Sweetman Ames and Francis D. Murnaghan.
Contributors: Murnaghan, Francis D. 1893- joint author.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 1958
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 462
Subjects: Mechanics, Analytic; Mathematical physics
Description: A mathematically rigorous development of theoretical mechanics for the advanced student, with constant practical applications. Used in hundreds of advanced courses. An unusually thorough coverage of gyroscopic and baryscopic material, detailed analysis of the Coriolis acceleration, applications of Lagrange's equations, motion of the double pendulum, Hamilton-Jacobi partial differential equations, group velocity and dispersion, etc. Special relativity is also included.