Classical mechanics /
Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko.
- 3rd edition.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Survey of the elementary principles -- Variational principles and lagrange's equations -- The central force problem -- The kinematics of rigid body motion -- The rigid body equations of motion -- Oscillations -- The classical mechanics of the special theory of relativity -- The hamilton equations of motion -- Canonical transofrmations -- Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and action-angle variables -- Classical chaos -- Canonical perturbation theory -- Introduction to the lagrangian and hamiltonian formlations for continuous systems and fields.