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- Outstanding eLearning tool (interactive problems with solutions, 2D/3D animations, applets)
- 40 years of teaching experience in the US and Germany
- A collection of 74 problems with detailed step-by-step guidance towards the solutions
- Collection of comments and additional mathematical details in support of the main text
- Complete presentation of all the mathematical tools needed
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents(6 chapters)
About this book
This book is the first of a series covering the major topics that are taught in university courses in Theoretical Physics: Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Theory and Statistical Physics. After an introduction to basic concepts of mechanics more advanced topics build the major part of this book. Interspersed is a discussion of selected problems of motion. This is followed by a concise treatment of the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian formulation of mechanics, as well as a brief excursion on chaotic motion. The last chapter deals with applications of the Lagrangian formulation to specific systems (coupled oscillators, rotating coordinate systems, rigid bodies). The level of the last sections is advanced. The text is accompanied by an extensive collection of online material, in which the possibilities of the electronic medium are fully exploited, e.g. in the form of applets, 2D- and 3D-animations. It contains: A collection of 74 problems with detailed step-by-step guidance towards the solutions, a collection of comments and additional mathematical details in support of the main text, a complete presentation of all the mathematical tools needed.
Authors and Affiliations
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Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Frankfurt Institut für Theoretische Physik, Frankfurt/Main, Germany
Cora S. Lüdde, Reiner M. Dreizler
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Theoretical Mechanics
Book Subtitle: Theoretical Physics 1
Authors: Cora S. Lüdde, Reiner M. Dreizler
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11138-9
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-11137-2Published: 05 November 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26586-0Published: 02 January 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-11138-9Published: 28 October 2010
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 402
Topics: Classical Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics