Haberzettl H. Classical Mechanics: Lecture Notes

Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2021. — 383 p. — ISBN 9811238278.This textbook (based on several graduate lecture courses on Advanced Mechanics I given in Ph.D. program at The George Washington University for a good number of years) provides lecture materials of a comprehensive course in Classical Mechanics developed by the author with input from students and colleagues alike. The richly illustrated book covers all major aspects of mechanics starting from the traditional Newtonian perspective, over Lagrangian mechanics, variational principles and Hamiltonian mechanics, rigid-body, and continuum mechanics, all the way to deterministic chaos and point-particle mechanics in special relativity. Derivation steps are worked out in detail, illustrated by examples, with ample explanations. Developed by a classroom practitioner, the book provides a comprehensive overview of classical mechanics with judicious material selections that can be covered in a one-semester course thus streamlining the instructor's task of choosing materials for their course. The usefulness for instructors notwithstanding, the primary aim of the book is to help students in their understanding, with detailed derivations and explanations, and provide focused guidance for their studies by repeatedly emphasizing how various topics are tied together by common physics principles.True PDF