Classical Mechanics

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-98796-5
Verlag: Chapman and Hall/CRC

Buch, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 754 g

The book introduces the main ideas and concepts of Newtonian, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, including the basics of rigid body motion and relativistic dynamics, at an intermediate to advanced level.

Zielgruppe

Undergraduate Advanced and Undergraduate Core

Autoren/Hrsg.

González-López, Artemio

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Mechanik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Preliminaries

2 Review of Newtonian mechanics

3 Motion in a central potential

4 Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics

5 Small oscillations

6 Motion relative to a non-inertial frame

7 Rigid body motion

8 Introduction to relativistic mechanics

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Artemio González-López (Madrid, 1959) is a theoretical physicist specializing in mathematical physics, particularly classical and quantum integrability. He earned degrees in Physics (1982) and Mathematics (1995) at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), and a Ph.D. in Physics (1984) at UCM. A Fulbright Scholar at Princeton University (1985–87), he has taught at the Universities of Minnesota and Waterloo and at UCM, where he is a Full Professor since 2009. Author of over 90 scientific papers, he has supervised four Ph.D. theses and led ten research projects. He is also an editor of several scientific journals and heads UCM's Mathematical Physics group.