Classical Mechanics: Transformations, Flows, Integrable and Chaotic Dynamics (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521481328)

An advanced text for first-year graduate students in physics and engineering taking a standard classical mechanics course, this is the first book to describe the subject in the context of the language and methods of modern nonlinear dynamics. The organizing principle of the text is integrability vs. nonintegrability. It introduces flows in phase space and transformations early and illustrates their applications throughout the text. The standard integrable problems of elementary physics are analyzed from the standpoint of flows, transformations, and integrability. This approach allows the author to introduce most of the interesting ideas of modern nonlinear dynamics via the most elementary nonintegrable problems of Newtonian mechanics. This text will also interest specialists in nonlinear dynamics, mathematicians, engineers and system theorists.

Author: Joseph L. McCauley
ISBN-10: 0521481325
ISBN-13: 9780521481328
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/08/1997
Pages: 488
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.14lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.06d