A Student's Guide to Analytical Mechanics

ISBN-13: 9781107145764 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 214 str.

John Bohn

Opis

An accessible guide to analytical mechanics, using intuitive examples to illustrate the underlying mathematics, helping students formulate, solve and interpret problems in mechanics.

Recenzje

'Bohn has written an excellent supplement for understanding analytical mechanics … A further reading section at the back provides useful directions for more study. Overall this will serve as an excellent supplement to a regular mechanics textbook.' S. Tripathi, Choice

Spis treści

Preface; Part I. Overview: 1. Why analytical mechanics?; 2. Ways of looking at a pendulum; Part II. Equations of Motion: 3. Constraints and d'Alembert's principle; 4. Lagrangian mechanics; 5. Samples from Lagrangian mechanics; 6. Hamiltonian mechanics; Part III. Methods of Solution: 7. Hamilton–Jacobi theory; 8. Action-Angle variables; 9. More applications of analytical mechanics; Further reading; Index.