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Title: Classical Dynamics : A Contemporary Approach by Jorge V. José, Eugene J. Saletan ISBN: 0-521-63636-1 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 13 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: The New Goldstein
Comment: If you have no exposure to Classical Mechanics or if you starting new then DON'T BUY THIS BOOK. This book is of advance nature. Books like Arya, Hauser or Corben are simpler.
The book starts with the basics, wraps up Newtonian Mechanics in the first chapter. The next five chapters deal in detail with Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations and their applications. They discuss some difficult topics like "Tangent Bundle" "Tangent Spaces" and "lie groups". "Noether's theorem" is also included which I have not seen in many Classical Mechanics books.There are many worked out examples which help the reader understand the subject.The explanations are quite lucid.There are plently of excercises to do but no answers to problems!
Rating: 5
Summary: A Contemporary Textbook on Mechanics
Comment: This book offers all the standard text used in undergraduate mechanics courses plus a number of more contemporary topics such as Lie derivatives, manifolds and much on nonlinear dynamical systems, all in a language appropriate for a Physics book. I consider it to be the modern equivalent of classics like the books by Goldstein or Marion. The material of this book should be the new standard for modern Classical Mechanics courses.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent book on a fundamental subject
Comment: Classical mechanics often falls by the wayside in a modern physics curriculum. However, there are times when an understanding of subtle issues in this field are simply necessary for progress in current research directions. At times like these, one is all-too-often forced to turn to older texts such as Goldstein or directly to the literature of a field with which one is rarely intimately familiar. It is therefore a great pleasure to find a text such as Jose and Saletan's, a highly modern, extremely complete and very readable textbook on mechanics at an advanced level.
The book covers all of the standard topics of a graduate mechanics course (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, rigid bodies, etc.) as well as more modern topics such as chaotic dynamics. All these subjects are treated in great detail and both in very physical and very formal languages. Most importantly, all of these discussions (including the formal ones!) are packed with completely worked examples which allow one to begin to use these techniques without attempting to decipher formal proofs.
The breadth of topics covered and the quality of the writing make this book a valuable addition to any physicist's workbench.
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Title: Schaum's Outline of Lagrangian Dynamics by Dare A. Wells ISBN: 0070692580 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Trade Pub. Date: 01 June, 1967 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Classical Mechanics (3rd Edition) by Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, John L. Safko ISBN: 0201657023 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 15 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $110.00 |
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Title: Classical Electrodynamics by John David Jackson ISBN: 047130932X Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 27 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $86.95 |
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Title: Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell by A. Zee ISBN: 0691010196 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 10 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $49.50 |
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Title: Classical Mechanics : 2nd Edition by H.C. Corben, Philip Stehle ISBN: 0486680630 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 18 August, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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