John L. Bohn (University of Colorado Boulder)

A Student's Guide to Analytical Mechanics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Student's Guides
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781316509074
• ISBN-10: 1316509079
• Artikelnr.: 52524891

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.