Classical Mechanics

DOI10.1017/CBO9781139170932MaRDI QIDQ4223195zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Joseph L. McCauley

Publication date 20 December 1998

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9781139170932

zbMATH Keywords

coordinate transformationshistory of mechanicsintegrabilityinvariance principlesoscillationsphase spacestabilitysymmetry

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Smooth dynamical systems: general theory (37Cxx) Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-01) General models, approaches, and methods in mechanics of particles and systems (70Gxx) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70Hxx)

Review text

This is an advanced text for first-year graduate students in physics and engineering taking a standard course of classical mechanics. The material is presented by using the language and methods of modern nonlinear dynamics. The book begins with a history of mechanics from the time of Plato and Aristotle, and ends with comments on the attempts to extend the Newtonian methods to fields beyond physics, including economics and social engineering. Invariance principles and integrability are the main organizing ideas of the text. The mathematical level assumes a well-prepared reader familiar at least with linear algebra and differential equations, including power series and Picard's iterative method. The author presents the classical Lie-Jacobi idea of complete integrability as a reduction of the solution of dynamical system to a complete set of independent integrations via a coordinate transformation. The related invariance and symmetry are also explained by using coordinate transformations. Hence coordinate transformations and geometric approach can be classified as the main qualitative methods used in the book. Additionally, the author demonstrates that fractals, chaos and attractors occur in various nonintegrable Newtonian dynamical systems. The book will be valuable to physicists and engineers studying the classical mechanics. It will also be of interest to specialists in nonlinear dynamics, mathematicians, and system theorists.

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• Classical Mechanics
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• Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics
• Classical mechanics with Mathematica.

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