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Title: Analytical Mechanics (Saunders Golden Sunburst Series) by Grant Fowles, George L. Cassiday ISBN: 0-03-022317-2 Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company Pub. Date: 08 September, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $113.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (12 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: An Adequate Text that Leaves the Reader Wanting More
Comment: This textbook covers all the aspects of analytical mechanics at the Junior/Senior level for an undergraduate physics major. It does this adequately. The organization of topics in the book appears to be slightly pell mell. The reader would benefit from the treatment of Langrangian mechanics before tackling the tough problem of 3D rigid body mechanics (the spinning top problem is much more approachable using the Lagrangian). The examples are slightly helpful, but leaving me wanting more. The problems are challenging. A solution's guide would be helpful to help the student work through some of the more difficult problems. In general the descriptions are clear, but as I said there does not seem to be a strong organiztional focus, which leads the reader to ask the question where are you going with this and why. It would have been nice to see clear motivating factors to want to study each chapter and to educate the reader why the topic is useful to study in more depth than in a introductory physics class. I cannot recommend a better book treating this subject but I would do an in-depth search for a better book on the subject before buying this one.
Rating: 4
Summary: Pretty Good
Comment: This book contains 3rd year undergrad mechanics. Multivariable and differential calculus are definitely required. Some of the new math (more advanced calculus, such as tensors, variations, etc.) that is needed is covered in the book fairly well, but 2 years of calculus is absolutely necessary.
I thought the examples were pretty clear and most of the text helpful, minus the historical info (fluff). Most of the problems required abstract thinking from the text but didn't seem (and weren't) impossible, just difficult.
The topics covered in this book are the following: Vectors, Newtonian Mechanics, Oscillations (where it gets harder), Motion in 3-D, Noninertial Reference Systems, Gravitation, Dynamics of Particle Systems, Rigid Body Mechanics (2-D and 3-D), Lagrangian Mechanics, and Dynamics of Oscillating Systems.
Overall I would recommend this book. It would be a pretty good book for self-study, but a couple math suppliments on tensors and calculus of variations may be helpful (perhaps look at Dover Publications' books since they are cheap).
Rating: 1
Summary: expenseive and bad
Comment: terrible book, don't expect to learn physics by yourself from this book. You will waste a lot of time. The book has a solution manual for instructor only, and your grader use them to correct your homework.
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Title: Introduction to Electrodynamics (3rd Edition) by David J. Griffiths ISBN: 013805326X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 30 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $108.00 |
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Title: Introduction to Quantum Mechanics by David J. Griffiths ISBN: 0131244051 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $108.00 |
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Title: Modern Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Stephen T. Thornton, Andrew Rex, Andrew F. Rex ISBN: 0030060494 Publisher: Brooks Cole Pub. Date: 27 May, 1999 List Price(USD): $108.95 |
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Title: Div, Grad, Curl, and All That: An Informal Text on Vector Calculus by H. M. Schey ISBN: 0393969975 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 October, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Optics (4th Edition) by Eugene Hecht ISBN: 0805385665 Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company Pub. Date: 02 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $108.00 |
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