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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Gerardo F. Torres del CastilloPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018 Weight: 0.773kg ISBN: 9783030069971ISBN 10: 3030069974 Pages: 366 Publication Date: 03 January 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsPreface.- The Lagrangian Formalism.- Some Applications of the Lagrangian Formalism.- Rigid Bodies.- The Hamiltonian Formalism.- Canonical Transformations.- The Hamilton–Jacobi Formalism.- Solutions.- References.- Index.Reviews'This book is intended for advanced undergraduate or graduate students in physics or applied mathematics and for researchers working in related subjects.' (Cristian Lazureanu, zbMATH 1422.70001, 2019) A book for beginning students of analytical mechanics, whether they be advanced undergraduates, graduate students or others wishing to learn more about mechanics through self-study. The book does a very nice job of shepherding the reader from Newtonian mechanics to Lagrangian mechanics ... . This book is a must-have library book for any mathematics or physics library. (Steven Deckelman, MAA Reviews, May 20, 2019) A book for beginning students of analytical mechanics, whether they be advanced undergraduates, graduate students or others wishing to learn more about mechanics through self-study. The book does a very nice job of shepherding the reader from Newtonian mechanics to Lagrangian mechanics ... . This book is a must-have library book for any mathematics or physics library. (Steven Deckelman, MAA Reviews, May 20, 2019) Author InformationGerardo F. Torres del Castillo is a professor of physics and mathematics at the Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, where he has taught since 1979. He is the author or coauthor of more than 30 papers on classical mechanics. His other published books are Differentiable Manifolds; 3-D Spinors, Spin-Weighted Functions and their Applications; and Spinors in Four-Dimensional Spaces. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |