A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies / Edition 4

by E. T. Whittaker, Sir William McCrae

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521358835
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	12/15/1988
Series:	Cambridge Mathematical Library
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	480
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 8.98(h) x 1.18(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"...an excellent example of readable applied mathematics and historical accuracy." Physics in Canada

From the Publisher

A reprint of the fourth edition (1937) about which Science progress wrote, "There can be few books on mathematical mechanics as famous as this... a comprehenisve account of all the classical results of analytical dynamics"--to which we can add nothing. New foreword. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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