Student''s Guide to Analytical Mechanics

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

List of contents

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.

About the author

John L. Bohn is Professor of Physics at the University of Colorado Boulder. He is a Fellow of JILA - an interdisciplinary institute for quantum physics, chemistry and astronomy - and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.

Summary

An accessible guide to analytical mechanics, clearly explaining the mathematical theory to help students formulate, solve and interpret problems in mechanics. Each chapter includes easily-visualised examples to provide context and reinforcement of important theory, and concludes with a set of exercises to test understanding.

Product details

• Authors: John Bohn, John (University of Colorado Boulder) Bohn, John L. Bohn, John L. (University of Colorado Boulder) Bohn, Tbd
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781107145764
• ISBN: 978-1-107-14576-4
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: Student's Guides; Student's Guides
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Physics, astronomy > Theoretical physics; Physik, Science, SCIENCE / Physics / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General), SCIENCE / Mechanics / General, Physics, Classical mechanics, Engineering: general