Classical Mechanics: 5th Edition

This is a really nice book for learning mechanics after 12th level. Most undergraduate level textbooks skimp on the Lagrangian Mechanics but this book deals with it in a very friendly fashion. It will be easier for students to study mechanics at masters level if they study this book beforehand.

El libro explica de una manera correcta los temas pero me parece que le falta ser más sistemático. Por ejemplo para aprender la mecánica Lagrangiana y Hamiltoniana es necesario buscar los conceptos por diferentes capítulos

It's a very clear book, with nice pictures and a bunch of good exercises. It is still the most used among Physics teachers

This is probably the best book on Classical Mechanics I ever read, clear, thoughtful, proposing many interesting problems. I highly recommend it. Have but minor criticisms: The book does not mention at all the important point of canonical transformations. The final chapters on chaos (dissipative and hamiltonian) are a little bit superficial, but the have the great merit of existing. The two appendices on dynamical systems, also, are not at the same (very high) level of the rest of the book.

* PhysicalThis book is very well bound on beautiful to touch quality paper and has clear - sized text. And the book is printed with B&W text and graphs.* Target audience;, A -level, H.N.D, Undergraduate, Post Graduate?This book is - in my humble opinion - a very well coordinated and designed book with a remit to cover and explain much of the middle - ground in Mechanics. This is above A -level introductory and in the Applied Math of say first and second year Math degree or Second year degree engineering. The book is written in a mathematically concise short - hand that you appreciate the more you progress into the book. The book goes over - and - over the ground in many ways that covers topics as Angular Momentum, Kinetic and Potential energies, Conservative forces, Three Dimensional Integration's, very, very well. The later parts, such as Lagrangian Mechanics, and Hamiltonian Mechanics a seem to be tacked - on to say they cover these topics, but its very much with reduced depth of abilities to explain.* Topics coveredIntroduction, Linear Motion, Energy and Angular Motion, Central Conservative Forces, Rotating Frames, Potential Theory, The Two - Body Problem, Many Body Systems, Rigid Bodies, Lagrangian Mechanics, Small Oscillations and Normal Modes, Hamiltonian mechanics, Dynamic Systems and their Geometry, Order and Chaos in Hamiltonian Systems, Appendix: A Vectors, B Conics, C Phase Plane Analysis near Critical Points, D Discrete Dynamical Systems MapsA really nice touch is a list of symbols pages xvii-xx* CommentsI have enjoyed reading this book very much. Both in the Mathematical short - hand, which is a great skill to learn in its self. And also the manner in which the book has been sculpted - I. m. h. o - from feedback from the target audience of students. There are no dead ends. Its very well explained with a great sense of continuity. Can I add that the book has answers to the set questions in the back of the book. The price of the book is a great incentive to buy it, and I think I have bought a useful book to help me within a corner-stone of Applied mathematics. Its a good stepping - stone to more advanced areas of mechanics.