Classical Mechanics

John Taylor Has Brought to His New Book, Classical Mechanics, All of the Clarity and Insight That Made His Introduction to Error Analysis a Best-Selling Text. Classical Mechanics is Intended for Students Who Have Studied Some Mechanics in an Introductory Physics Course and Covers Such Topics As Conservation Laws, Oscillations, Lagrangian Mechanics, Two-Body Problems, Non-Inertial Frames, Rigid Bodies, Normal Modes, Chaos Theory, Hamiltonian Mechanics, and Continuum Mechanics. a Particular Highlight is the Chapter on Chaos, Which Focuses on a Few Simple Systems, to Give a Truly Comprehensible Introduction to the Concepts That We Hear so Much About. at the End of Each Chapter is a Large Selection of Interesting Problems for the Student, Classified by Topic and Approximate Difficulty, and Ranging From Simple Exercises to Challenging Computer Projects. Taylor's Classical Mechanics is a Thorough and Very Readable Introduction to a Subject That is Four Hundred Years Old but As Exciting Today