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Taylor, John R. 1939-

Classical mechanics / John R. Taylor. - First Edition - xiv, 786 pages: illustrations ; 27 cm.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 747-748).

Part I. Essentials. Newton's laws of motion -- Projectiles and charged particles -- Momentum and angular momentum -- Energy -- Oscillations -- Calculus of variations -- Lagrange's equations -- Two-body central force problems -- Mechanics in noninertial frames -- Motion of rigid bodies -- Coupled oscillators and normal modes -- pt. II. Further topics. Nonlinear mechanics and chaos -- Hamiltonian mechanics -- Collision theory -- Special relativity -- Continuum mechanics -- Appendix. Diagonalizing real symmetric matrices.


The book covers most of the topics normally found in books at this level, including conservation laws, oscillations, Lagrangian mechanics, two-body problems, non-inertial frames, rigid bodies, normal modes, chaos theory, Hamiltonian mechanics, and continuum mechanics.

ISBN: 9781891389221

LCCN: 2004054971

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Mechanics
Mecánica

LC Class. No.: QC125.2 / .T39 2005

Dewey Class. No.: 531