A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
E. T. Whittaker
Sir William McCrae
Sir William McCrae
February 1989
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There can be few books on mathematical mechanics as famous as this, a work that forms a comprehensive account of all the classical results of analytical dynamics.
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"...an excellent example of readable applied mathematics and historical accuracy." Physics in Canada
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February 1989Paperback
9780521358835
480 pages
228 × 152 × 30 mm
0.78kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Kinematical Preliminaries
- Part II. The Equations of Motion
- Part III. Principles Available for the Integration
- Part IV. The Soluble Problems of Particle Dynamics
- Part V. The Dynamical Specification of Bodies
- Part VI. The Soluble Problems of Rigid Dynamics
- Part VII. Theory of Vibrations
- Part VIII. Non-Holonomic Systems, Dissipative Systems
- Part IX. The Principles of Least Action and Least Curvature
- Part X. Hamiltonian Systems and their Integral-Invariants
- Part XI. The Transformation-Theory of Dynamics
- Part XII. Properties of the Integrals of Dynamical Systems
- Part XIII. The Reduction of the Problem of Three Bodies
- Part XIV. The Theorems of Bruns and Poincare
- Part XV. The General Theory of Orbits
- Part XVI. Integration by Series
- Index of authors quoted
- Index of terms employed.
