An Introduction to Mechanics - Kleppner (original) (raw)

Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions

This textbook covers all the standard introductory topics in classical mechanics, including Newton's laws, oscillations, energy, momentum, angular momentum, planetary motion, and special relativity. It also explores more advanced topics, such as normal modes, the Lagrangian method, gyroscopic motion, fictitious forces, 4-vectors, and general relativity.

Physics from Planet Earth: An Introduction to MechanicsPhysics from Planet Earth: An Introduction to Mechanics. Amato Joseph C. Galvez Enrique J. 610 pp. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Fl, 2015. Price: $62.97 (hardcover). ISBN 978-1-4348-6783-9

American Journal of Physics

ISBN 978-1-4348-6783-9. (Jeffrey Lawson and Matthew Rave, Reviewers.) Writing a physics textbook is a tricky business. Make a book too comprehensive, and it quickly becomes unwieldy [one study ("Textbook Weight in California: Analysis and Recommendations," California State Board of Education, May 2004 hhttp://www2.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/may04item21.pdfi) found that high school physics texts average above 6 pounds]. But leave out examples or explanatory text, and a textbook becomes less a teaching tool and more a handbook for practicing physicists (e.g., Jackson's classic electrodynamics text). So what's an author to do? One useful strategy for producing a good physics textbook is to narrow its scope, which thereby (possibly) limits its readership but allows for the kind of time and attention to detail required for student understanding.

David Morin Introduction to Classical Mechanics With Problems and Solutions

This textbook covers all the standard introductory topics in classical mechanics, including Newton's laws, oscillations, energy, momentum, angular momentum, planetary motion, and special relativity. It also explores more advanced topics, such as normal modes, the Lagrangian method, gyroscopic motion, fictitious forces, 4-vectors, and general relativity. It contains more than 250 problems with detailed solutions so students can easily check their understanding of the topic. There are also over 350 unworked exercises, which are ideal for homework assignments. Password-protected solutions are available to instructors at www.cambridge.org/9780521876223\. The vast number of problems alone makes it an ideal supplementary book for all levels of undergraduate physics courses in classical mechanics. The text also includes many additional remarks which discuss issues that are often glossed over in other textbooks, and it is thoroughly illustrated with more than 600 figures to help demonstrate key concepts.

Space Mechanics

2002

Before Kepler all men were blind. Kepler had one eye, Newton had two. Voltaire In this chapter we introduce the concept of angular momentum for a particle and show that it is conserved for a particle in a central force field. We then show how the two-particle problem can be reduced to an effective one-particle problem in the center of mass system. After that the we use conservation of energy to find out things about central motion. The Kepler problem for motion in a 1/r 2-force field is solved using the conservation of energy and angular momentum. Some properties of the resulting solutions, the ellipse, the parabola, and the hyperbola are presented. We then discuss the problem of the force-field from an extended body, in particular the spherically symmetric case.

PHYSICS. Brief course. MECHANICS

This book gives brief but thorough enough materials on “Kinematics”, “Dynamics” and “Relativistic mechanics” of “General physics” course. It is prepared by the department of theoretical and experimental physics of Tomsk polytechnic university. This textbook intended for the students of all science disciplines of technical universities.