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Classical mechanics

Title
Classical mechanics / T.W.B. Kibble and F.H. Berkshire.
Author
Kibble, T. W. B.
Publication
Harlow, Essex, England : Longman, 1996.

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Additional Authors
Berkshire, F. H.
Description
xxii, 361 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
This well established text, now in its fourth edition, continues to set out the fundamental principles of the mechanics of particles and rigid bodies.
Subject
  • Mechanics, Analytic
  • Mechanik
  • Klassieke mechanica
  • Mécanique analytique
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 339) and index.
Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Linear motion -- 3. Energy and angular momentum -- 4. Central conservative forces -- 5. Rotating frames -- 6. Potential theory -- 7. The two-body problem -- 8. Many-body systems -- 9. Rigid bodies -- 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 -- App. A. Vectors -- App. B. Conics -- App. C. Phase plane analysis near critical points.
ISBN
  • 058225972X
  • 9780582259720
LCCN
  • 84010062
  • 11791414
OCLC
  • ocm36073355
  • 36073355
  • SCSB-348676
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library