Cambridge UP - Classical Mechanics

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//-->CLASSICAL MECHANICSGregory’sClassical Mechanicsis a major new textbook for undergraduates in mathe-matics and physics. It is a thorough, self-contained and highly readable account of asubject many students find difficult. The author’s clear and systematic style promotes agood understanding of the subject: each concept is motivated and illustrated by workedexamples, while problem sets provide plenty of practice for understanding and technique.Computer assisted problems, some suitable for projects, are also included. The book isstructured to make learning the subject easy; there is a natural progression from coretopics to more advanced ones and hard topics are treated with particular care. A themeof the book is the importance of conservation principles. These appear first in vectorialmechanics where they are proved and applied to problem solving. They reappear in ana-lytical mechanics, where they are shown to be related to symmetries of the Lagrangian,culminating in Noether’s theorem.•Suitable for a wide range of undergraduate mechanics courses given in mathematics andphysics departments: no prior knowledge of the subject is assumed•Profusely illustrated and thoroughly class-tested, with a clear direct style that makes thesubject easy to understand: all concepts are motivated and illustrated by the many workedexamples included•Good, accurately-set problems, with answers in the book: computer assisted problemsand projects are also provided. Model solutions for problems available to teachers fromwww.cambridge.org/GregoryThe authorDouglas Gregory is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Manchester. He is aresearcher of international standing in the field of elasticity, and has held visiting posi-tions at New York University, the University of British Columbia, and the University ofWashington. He is highly regarded as a teacher of applied mathematics: this, his firstbook, is the product of many years of teaching experience.Bloody instructions, which, being taught,Return to plague th’ inventor.SHAKESPEARE,Macbeth,act I, sc. 7Front CoverThe photograph on the front cover shows Mimas,one of the many moons of Saturn; the huge crater was formedby an impact. Mimas takes 22 hours 37 minutes to orbit Sat-urn, the radius of its orbit being 185,500 kilometers. After readingChapter 7, you will be able to estimate the mass of Saturn fromthis data!CLASSICAL MECHANICSAN UNDERGRADUATE TEXTR. DOUGLAS GREGORYUniversity of Manchester [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]