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Analytical Mechanics : An Introduction / Antonio Fasano, Stefano Marmi ; translated by Beatrice Pelloni.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Italian Series: Oxford graduate textsPublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006Copyright date: ©2006Description: xiii, 772 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780198508021 :
  • 0198508026 :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 531.01515 23 F.A.A.
Contents:
1. Geometric and kinematic foundations of Lagrangian mechanics -- 2. Dynamics: general laws and the dynamics of a point particle -- 3. One-dimensional motion -- 4. The dynamics of discrete systems. Lagrangian formalism -- 5. Motion in a central field -- 6. Rigid bodies: geometry and kinematics -- 7. The mechanics of rigid bodies: dynamics -- 8. Analytical mechanics: Hamiltonian formalism -- 9. Analytical mechanics: variational principles -- 10. Analytical mechanics: canonical formalism -- 11. Analytical mechanics: Hamilton-Jacobi theory and integrability -- 12. Analytical mechanics: canonical perturbation theory -- 13. Analytical mechanics: an introduction to ergodic theory and to chaotic motion -- 14. Statistical mechanics: kinetic theory -- 15. Statistical mechanics: Gibbs sets -- 16. Lagrangian formalism in continuum mechanics -- Appendices.
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Translated from the Italian.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Geometric and kinematic foundations of Lagrangian mechanics -- 2. Dynamics: general laws and the dynamics of a point particle -- 3. One-dimensional motion -- 4. The dynamics of discrete systems. Lagrangian formalism -- 5. Motion in a central field -- 6. Rigid bodies: geometry and kinematics -- 7. The mechanics of rigid bodies: dynamics -- 8. Analytical mechanics: Hamiltonian formalism -- 9. Analytical mechanics: variational principles -- 10. Analytical mechanics: canonical formalism -- 11. Analytical mechanics: Hamilton-Jacobi theory and integrability -- 12. Analytical mechanics: canonical perturbation theory -- 13. Analytical mechanics: an introduction to ergodic theory and to chaotic motion -- 14. Statistical mechanics: kinetic theory -- 15. Statistical mechanics: Gibbs sets -- 16. Lagrangian formalism in continuum mechanics -- Appendices.

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