Structure and interpretation of classical mechanics
Publisher's description (no review copy received): This textbook takes an innovative approach to the teaching of classical mechanics, emphasizing the development of general but practical intellectual tools to support the analysis of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. The development is organized around a progressively more sophisticated analysis of particular natural systems, and weaves examples throughout the presentation. Explorations of phenomena such as transitions to chaos, nonlinear resonances, and resonance overlap help the student to develop appropriate analytic tools for understanding. Computational algorithms communicate methods used in the analysis of dynamical phenomena. Expressing the methods of mechanics in a computer language forces them to be unambiguous and computationally effective. Once formalized as a procedure, a mathematical idea also becomes a tool that can be used directly to compute results. The student actively explores the motion of systems through computer simulation and experiment. This active exploration is extended to the mathematics. The requirement that the computer be able to interpret any expression provides strict and immediate feedback as to whether an expression is correctly formulated. The interaction with the computer uncovers and corrects many deficiencies in understanding.
- Nesting forward-mode AD in a functional framework
- New integrability conditions for differential constraints
- The spin-orbit resonant problem including core-mantle gravitational coupling
- Expanding the simple pendulum's rotation solution in action-angle variables
- Numerical exploration of a hexagonal string billiard
- scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6982909 (Why is no real title available?)
- Divide-and-conquer checkpointing for arbitrary programs with no user annotation
- Critical exponents and scaling properties for the chaotic dynamics of a particle in a time-dependent potential barrier
- Structure and interpretation of classical mechanics
- О классическом и функциональном подходах к механике
- An investigation of the chaotic transient for a boundary crisis in the Fermi-Ulam model
- Total gravitational energy of a slightly ellipsoidal trilayer planet
- Variational integrators for almost-integrable systems
- A Hamiltonian for 1/1 rotational secondary resonances, and application to small satellites of Saturn and Jupiter
- A language for evaluating derivatives of functionals using automatic differentiation
- Numerical study of quantum resonances in chaotic scattering
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