New foundations for classical mechanics.
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Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mechanics of particles and systems (70-01) Dynamics of a rigid body and of multibody systems (70Exx) Dynamics of a system of particles, including celestial mechanics (70Fxx) General models, approaches, and methods in mechanics of particles and systems (70Gxx) Hamiltonian and Lagrangian mechanics (70Hxx)
This is the second edition of a textbook in analytical mechanics [for the first edition see the author, New foundations for classical mechanics Fundamental Theories of Physics, 15. Dordrecht etc.: D. Reidel Publishing Company, a member of the Kluwer Academic Publishers Group. XI (1986; Zbl 0612.70001)] at a level approximately the same as \textit{H. Goldstein}'s [Classical mechanics. 2nd ed. World Student Series. Addison-Wesley Series in Physics. Reading, Massachusetts, etc.: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company. XIV (1980; Zbl 0491.70001)] It includes more or less standard materials on the mechanics of particles and rigid bodies. This work is intended to be mostly a physics book, as apposed to a book on mathematical methods in physics. The primary exception -- a big one, and the rationale for a new book on classical mechanics -- is the author's introduction and consistent use of geometric algebra (or Clifford algebra, as it is more commonly known) in place of the usual vector-matrix approach. The author seems to be a proselytizer for the geometric algebra approach: namely, he claims that geometric algebra integrates complex, vector and matrix algebra into a coherent mathematical language which retains the advantages of each but possesses powerful new capabilities. Revisions in this second edition include the addition of a chapter on relativistic mechanics and the deletion of a chapter on the fondations of mechanics. More than one hundred of the book's nearly seven hundred pages are devoted to mathematical preliminaries. In addition, there is a long chapter on ``Operators and transformation which establishes a basis for the discussion of motion in rotating systems. The ``new foundations of the book's title presumably refer to the author's recasting of mechanics in terms of geometric algebra, and of the modern theory of dynamical systems little is presented. The book is clearly written and contains many detailed examples and a variety of good problems. Nevertheless, in several non-essential areas, there are unclear, misleading, or incorrect statements that range from calling the quaternions the ``largest possible associative division algebra to an arguable attribution of the Earth's ice ages to orbital perturbations. Overall, however, this is an attractive book with a distinctive approach to the classical mechanics.
- Exact analytic solutions for the rotation of an axially symmetric rigid body subjected to a constant torque
- New foundations for classical mechanics
- Clifford algebras and geometric algebra
- On the treatment of fluid problems by methods of Clifford analysis
- The geometry of light paths for equiangular spirals
- Towards a physics on fractals: differential vector calculus in three-dimensional continuum with fractal metric
- The groups of two by two matrices in double and dual numbers, and associated Möbius transformations
- An extended implementation framework for geometric algebra operations on systems of coordinate frames of arbitrary signature
- Kinematic optimal design of a 2-DoF parallel positioning mechanism employing geometric algebra
- Finite motion analysis of parallel mechanisms with parasitic motions based on conformal geometric algebra
- Notes on planar inverse kinematics based on geometric algebra
- A random flight process associated to a Lorentz gas with variable density in a gravitational field
- Analytical mobility analysis of Bennett linkage using geometric algebra
- Singularity analysis of 3-RPR parallel manipulators using geometric algebra
- Star products and geometric algebra
- Spinor approch to gravitational motion and precession
- Iterative estimation of rigid-body transformations
- A Clifford algebra of signature \((n,3n)\) and the density operators of quantum information theory
- Visual servoing on the sphere using conformal geometric algebra
- The method of deformed stars as a population algorithm for global optimization
- Lyapunov stability: a geometric algebra approach
- Blade products and angles between subspaces
- Three-dimensional quadrics in extended conformal geometric algebras of higher dimensions from control points, implicit equations and axis alignment
- The shape of planar smooth gestures and the convergence of a gesture recognizer
- Formalization of geometric algebra in HOL Light
- Geometric algebra in the plane. Pointers and complex numbers
- Clifford algebra is the natural framework for root systems and Coxeter groups. Group theory: Coxeter, conformal and modular groups
- Calculation of quantum eigens with geometrical algebra rotors
- Coordinate free integrals in geometric calculus
- Geometric algebra as a unifying language for physics and engineering and its use in the study of gravity
- Application of geometric algebra to the electroweak sector of the standard model of particle physics
- Application of Clifford algebra \(C\ell_3(\mathbb C)\) to continuum and engineering mechanics
- Strapdown INS/GPS integrated navigation using geometric algebra
- Mechanics in space and counterspace
- On conformal curves in 2-dimensional de Sitter space
- Neoclassical theory of elementary charges with spin of 1/2
- Applications of Clifford's geometric algebra
- Geometric algebra for multidimension-unified geographical information system
- Delambre-Gauss formulas for augmented, right-angled hexagons in hyperbolic 4-space
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1480245 (Why is no real title available?)
- Spinors in the hyperbolic algebra
- Normal mode analysis of molecular motions in curvilinear coordinates on a non-Eckart body-frame: an application to protein torsion dynamics
- On the Milankovitch orbital elements for perturbed Keplerian motion
- A connection between Minkowski and Galilean space-times in quantum mechanics
- Spacetime algebra as a powerful tool for electromagnetism
- From the trinity (A₃, B₃, H₃) to an ADE correspondence
- Geometric roots of \(-1\) in Clifford algebras \(C \ell_{p,q}\) with \(p + q \leq 4\)
- Platonic solids generate their four-dimensional analogues
- Conformal Geometry, Euclidean Space and Geometric Algebra
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3241906 (Why is no real title available?)
- Generating hyperbolical rotation matrix for a given hyperboloid
- A geometric algebra approach to invariance control in sliding regimes for switched systems
- Three-body relative equilibria on \(\mathbb{S}^2\)
- Sliding mode control of switched systems: a geometric algebra approach
- Introduction to geometric algebra
- Clifford and the first steps in the elaboration of geometric algebras
- Strapdown inertial navigation system algorithms based on geometric algebra
- Sliding mode control of switched Hamiltonian systems: a geometric algebra approach
- Cliffordization, spin, and fermionic star products
- Multivector differential calculus
- The geometric associative algebras of Euclidean space
- Generalization of the conformal model of the Euclidean plane and the groupoid of image viewpoints
- A Clifford algebraic framework for Coxeter group theoretic computations.
- Analytic propagation of near-circular satellite orbits in the atmosphere of an oblate planet
- \(p\)-mechanics and field theory
- Geometric algebra and star products on the phase space
- A non-distributive extension of complex numbers to higher dimensions
- Clifford algebra and the discretizable molecular distance geometry problem
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