Classical mechanics /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London : River Edge, NJ :
Imperial College Press ; Distributed by World Scientific Pub.,
©2004.
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| Edition: | 5th ed. |
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| Online Access: | http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=124678 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface; Contents; Useful Constants and Units; List of Symbols; 1
- Introduction; 2
- Linear Motion; 3
- Energy and Angular Momentum; 4
- Central Conservative Forces; 4
- Rotating Frames; 6
- Potential Theory; 7
- The Two-Body Problem; 8
- Many-Body Systems; 10
- Lagrangian Mechanics; 11
- Small Oscillations and Normal Modes; 12
- Hamiltonian Mechanics; 13
- Dynamical Systems and Their Geometry; 14
- Order and Chaos in Hamiltonian Systems; Appendix A
- Vectors; Appendix B
- Conics; Appendix C
- Phase Plane Analysis near Critical Points; Answers to Problems.