Lectures on Classical Mechanics

These lecture notes cover Classical Mechanics at the level of second-year undergraduates. The book offers comprehensive as well as self-contained material that can be taught in a one-semester course for students with the minimal background knowledge acquired in preuniversity education or in the usual first-year overview. The presentation does not skip the technical details which renders the book particularly well-suited for the self-studying student.

Contents:

• Kinematics
• Dynamics
• Conservative Forces
• Pair Forces
• Two-Body Systems
• Gravitating Mass Distributions
• Variational Problems
• Principle of Stationary Action
• Small-Amplitude Oscillations
• From Lagrange to Hamiltonian
• Rigid Bodies
• Earth-Bound Laboratories

Readership: Second-year university undergraduates, course facilitators, and university lecturers.
Key Features:

• The presentation does not skip the technical details which renders the book particularly well-suited for the self-studying student