Newest version of the book has been reprinted in 2002 and can be purchase at
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Recent advances in the study of dynamical systems have revolutionized the way
that classical mechanics is taught and understood. Classical Dynamics:
A Contemporary Approach is a new and comprehensive textbook that provides
a complete description of this fundamental branch of physics. The authors
cover all the material that one would expect to find in a standard graduate
course: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, canonical transformations,
the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, perturbation methods, and rigid bodies.
They also deal with more advanced topics such as the relativistic Kepler
problem, Liouville and Darboux theorems, and inverse and chaotic scattering.
A key feature of the book is the early introduction of geometric
(differential manifold) ideas, as well as detailed treatment of topics in
nonlinear dynamics (such as the KAM theorem) and continuum dynamics (including solitons).
The book contains many worked examples and over 200 homework exercises. It will be an
ideal textbook for graduate students of physics, applied mathematics, theoretical
chemistry, and engineering, as well as a useful reference for researchers in these
fields. A solutions manual is available exclusively for instructors.
Table of contents: Chapter
1
Fundamentals of Mechanics
Chapter 2
Lagrangian
Formulation of Mechanics
Chapter 3
Topics in
Lagrangian Dynamics
Chapter 4
Scattering
and Linear Oscillators
Chapter 5
Hamiltonian
Formulation of Mechanics
Chapter 6
Topics in
Hamiltonian Dynamics
Chapter 7
Nonlinear
Dynamics
Chapter 8
Rigid
Bodies
Chapter 9
Continuum
Dynamics
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