TY  - GEN
AU  - Iro, Harald
TI  - A modern approach to classical mechanics
SN  - 9812382135 (cloth)
AV  - QA805 .I7613 2002
PY  - 2002///
CY  - River Edge, N.J.
PB  - World Scientific
KW  - Mechanics
KW  - Statistical mechanics
N1  - "The first German edition of this book appeared in 1993, published by the Universit×atsverlag R. Trauner, Linz, Austria ..."--Preface; Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-436) and index; 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
ER  -