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Classical Mechanics

3e | 2000, A-W | ISBN 0201657023, 0201316110 | 638p | DjVu, 8 MB

For thirty years it has been the acknowledged standard in upper- and graduate-level classical mechanics. This text also comes highly recommended by teachers of quantum theory, as preparation for understanding Schrödinger-de Broglie wave mechanics. The two editions being practically the same size, some material had to be shortened or omitted so that new topics could be added. Therefore, many users may actually prefer the 2nd edition for some purposes. The differences are detailed in the Preface to the Third Edition:

& 8220;....The preface to the second edition contains the following statement: "I have tried to retain, as much as possible, the advantages of the first edition while taking into account the developments of the subject itself, its position in the curriculum, and its applications to other fields." This is the philosophy which has guided the preparation of this third edition twenty more years later.

The second edition introduced one additional chapter on Perturbation Theory,.... This third edition adds still one more new chapter on Nonlinear Dynamics or Chaos, but counterbalances this by reducing the amount of material in several of the other chapters, by shortening the space allocated to appendices, by considerably reducing the bibliography, and by omitting the long lists of symbols. Thus third edition is comparable in size to the second.

In the chapter on relativity we have abandoned the complex Minkowski space in favor of the now standard real metric. Two of the authors prefer the complex metric because of its pedagogical advantages (HG) and because it fits in well with Clifford Algebra formulations of Physics (CPP), but the desire to prepare students who can easily move forward into other areas of theory such as field theory and general relativity dominated over personal preferences. Some modern notation such as 1-forms, mapping and the wedge product is introduced in this chapter.

The chapter on Chaos is a necessary addition because of the current interest in nonlinear dynamics which has begun to play a significant role in applications of classical dynamics. The majority of classical mechanics problems and applications in the real world include nonlinearities, ... It is also important to realize the role of fractal dimensionality in chaos.

New sections have been added and others combined or eliminated here and there throughout the book, with the omissions to a great extent motivated by the desire not to extend the overall length beyond that of the second edition. A section was added on the Euler and Lagrange exact solutions to the three body problem. In several places phase space plots and Lissajous figures were appended to illustrate solutions. The damped driven pendulum was discussed as an example that explains the workings of Josephson junctions. The symplectic approach was clarified by writing out some of the matrices. The harmonic oscillator was treated with anisotropy, and also in polar coordinates. The last chapter on continua and fields was formulated in the modern notation introduced in the relativity chapter. The significances of the special unitary group in two dimensions SUB) and the special orthogonal group in three dimensions SOC) were presented in more up-to-date notation, and an appendix was added on groups and algebras. Special tables were introduced to clarify properties of ellipses, vectors, vector fields and 1-forms, canonical transformations, and the relationships between the spacetime and symplectic approaches.

Several of the new features and approaches in this third edition had been mentioned as possibilities in the preface to the second edition, such as properties of group theory, tensors in non-Euclidean spaces, and "new mathematics" of theoretical physics such as manifolds. The reference to "One area omitted that deserves special attention—nonlinear oscillation and associated stability questions" now constitutes the subject matter of our new Chapter 11 "Classical Chaos." We debated whether to place this new chapter after Perturbation theory where it fits more logically, or before Perturbation theory where it is more likely to be covered in class, and we chose the latter. The referees who reviewed our manuscript were evenly divided on this question.

The mathematical level of the present edition is about the same as that of the first two editions. Some of the mathematical physics, such as the discussions of hermitean and unitary matrices, was omitted because it pertains much more to quantum mechanics than it does to classical mechanics, and little used notations like dyadics were curtailed. Space devoted to power law potentials, Cayley-Klein parameters, Routh's procedure, time independent perturbation theory, and the stress-energy tensor was reduced. In some cases reference was made to the second edition for more details. The problems at the end of the chapters were divided into "derivations" and "exercises," and some new ones were added.

The authors are especially indebted to Michael A. Unseren and Forrest M. Hoffman of the Oak Ridge National laboratory for their 1993 compilation of Buy Book at Lowest Price on Amazon

that they made available on the Internet. It is hoped that not too many new errors have slipped into this present revision.& 8221;

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