Title Statements
- Full title :Classical mechanics / Herbert Goldstein, John Safko, Charles Poole.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2014
- Edition:Third edition
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Pearson
- Place of Publication:Harlow, Essex, England
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2014
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xviii, 638 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1306517923, 9781306517928, 9781292038933, 1292038934
- oclc:ocn874969691
- LC Classification:QA805
- Dewey Decimal:531
Table of Contents
Cover -- Title -- Contents -- 1 Survey of the Elementary Principles -- 1.1 Mechanics of a Particle -- 1.2 Mechanics of a System of Particles -- 1.3 Constraints -- 1.4 D' Alembert's Principle and Lagrange's Equations -- 1.5 Velocity-Dependent Potentials and the Dissipation Function -- 1.6 Simple Applications of the Lagrangian Formulation -- 2 Variational Principles and Lagrange's Equations -- 2.1 Hamilton's Principle -- 2.2 Some Techniques of the Calculus of Variations -- 2.3 Derivation of Lagrange's Equations from Hamilton's Principle -- 2.4 Extending Hamilton's Principle to Systems with Constraints -- 2.5 Advantages of a Variational Principle Formulation -- 2.6 Conservation Theorems and Symmetry Properties -- 2.7 Energy Function and the Conservation of Energy -- 3 The Central Force Problem -- 3.1 Reduction to the Equivalent One-Body Problem -- 3.2 The Equations of Motion and First Integrals -- 3.3 The Equivalent One-Dimensional Problem, and Classification of Orbits -- 3.4 The Virial Theorem -- 3.5 The Differential Equation for the Orbit, and Integrable Power-Law Potentials -- 3.6 Conditions for Closed Orbits (Bertrand's Theorem) -- 3.7 The Kepler Problem: Inverse-Square Law of Fo…
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