InhaltsangabeTable of Contents 1. Survey of the Elementary Principles 2. Variational Principles and Lagrange's Equations 3. The Central Force Problem 4. The Kinematics of Rigid Body Motion 5. The Rigid Body Equations of Motion 6. Oscillations 7. The Classical Mechanics of the Special Theory of Relativity 8. The Hamilton Equations of Motion 9. Canonical Transformations 10. HamiltonJacobi Theory and ActionAngle Variables 11. Classical Chaos 12. Canonical Perturbation Theory 13. Introduction to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations for Continuous Systems and Fields App. A. Euler Angles in Alternative Conventions and Cayley-Klein Parameters App. B. Groups and Algebras Selected Bibliography Author Index Subject Index rem.: to be translated for the german ed.

Table of Contents 1. Survey of the Elementary Principles 2. Variational Principles and Lagrange''s Equations 3. The Central Force Problem 4. The Kinematics of Rigid Body Motion 5. The Rigid Body Equations of Motion 6. Oscillations 7. The Classical Mechanics of the Special Theory of Relativity 8. The Hamilton Equations of Motion 9. Canonical Transformations 10. Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Action-Angle Variables 11. Classical Chaos 12. Canonical Perturbation Theory 13. Introduction to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations for Continuous Systems and Fields App. A. Euler Angles in Alternative Conventions and Cayley-Klein Parameters App. B. Groups and Algebras Selected Bibliography Author Index Subject Index rem.: to be translated for the german ed.