A modern approach to classical mechanics /
Classical mechanics.
Harald Iro.
- xii, 442 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
"The first German edition of this book appeared in 1993, published by the Universit×atsverlag R. Trauner, Linz, Austria ..."--Preface.
The foundations of mechanics --One-dimensional motion of a particle --Encountering peculiar motion in two dimensions --Motion in a central force field --The gravitational interaction of two bodies --Collisions of particles. Scattering --Changing the frame of reference --Lagrangian mechanics --Conservation laws and symmetries in many particle systems --The rigid body --Small oscillations --Hamilton's canonical formulation of mechanics --Hamilton-Jacobi theory --From integrable to non-integrable systems --Coordinate systems and some vector analysis --Rotations and tensors --Green's functions.