Classical mechanics/
Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko.
- 3rd ed.
- New Delhi: Pearson, 2008.
- xviii, 638 p. : ill. 24 cm.
1. Survey of the Elementary Principles. 2. Variational Principles and Lagrange's Equations. 3. The Central Force Problem. 4. The Kinematics of Rigid Body Motion. 5. The Rigid Body Equations of Motion. 6. Oscillations. 7. The Classical Mechanics of the Special Theory of Relativity. 8. The Hamiltonian Equations of Motion. 9. Canonical Transformations. 10. Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Action Angle Variables. 11. Classical Chaos. 12. Canonical Perturbation Theory. 13. Introduction to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations for Continuous Systems and Fields. Appendixes. Select Bibliography. Index.