Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua (Dover Books on Physics)

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Pages: 592

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Publication Date: December 16,2003

Category: Mechanics



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This two-part textual content fills what has frequently been a void in the first-12 months graduate physics curriculum.
The written text opens with Newton’s laws and regulations of movement and systematically evolves the dynamics of classical contaminants, with chapters on basics, rotating coordinate systems, lagrangian formalism, little oscillations, dynamics of rigid bodies, and hamiltonian formalism, including a short discussion of the changeover to quantum mechanics. Through its study of contaminants and continua, it gives a lucid and self-included accounts of classical mechanics — which provides a organic framework for introducing most of the advanced mathematical ideas in physics. This portion of the reserve also considers types of the limiting behavior of several contaminants, facilitating the eventual changeover to a continuous moderate.
The next part handles classical continua, which includes chapters on string membranes, audio waves, surface area waves on non-viscous fluids, warmth conduction, viscous liquids, and elastic press.

Each one of these self-included chapters supplies the relevant physical history and develops the correct mathematical techniques, and complications of varying problems appear through the entire text.


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