Book Detail Page written by John Taylor John Taylor has brought
to his new book, Classical Mechanics, all of the clarity and
insight that made his Introduction to Error Analysis a best-
selling text. Classical Mechanics is intended for students who
have studied some mechanics in an introductory physics course,
such as "freshman physics." With unusual clarity, the book
covers most of the topics normally found in books at this level,
including conservation laws, oscillations, Lagrangian mechanics,
two-body problems, non-inertial frames, rigid bodies, normal
modes, chaos theory, Hamiltonian mechanics, and continuum
mechanics. A particular highlight is the chapter on chaos, which
focuses on a few simple systems, to give a truly comprehensible
introduction to the concepts that we hear so much about. At the
end of each chapter is a large selection of interesting problems
for the student, 744 in all, classified by topic and approximate
difficulty, and ranging for simple exercises to challenging
computer projects. Com