Classical Mechanics by Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, John L. Safko, Charles P. Poole, John L. Safko

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  • Publisher: Addison Wesley
  • Pub. Date: June 2001
  • ISBN-13: 9780201657029
  • Sales Rank: 104,698
  • 680pp
  • Edition Description: 3RD
  • Edition Number: 3
 
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For thirty years this has been the acknowledged standard in advanced classical mechanics courses. This classic book enables readers to make connections between classical and modern physics - an indispensable part of a physicist's education. In this new edition, Beams Medal winner Charles Poole and John Safko have updated the book to include the latest topics, applications, and notation, to reflect today's physics curriculum. They introduce readers to the increasingly important role that nonlinearities play in contemporary applications of classical mechanics. New numerical exercises help readers to develop skills in how to use computer techniques to solve problems in physics. Mathematical techniques are presented in detail so that the book remains fully accessible to readers who have not had an intermediate course in classical mechanics. For college instructors and students.

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July 06, 2007: There is a proverb which claims that families go from rags to riches and back again in three generations. So it is with this wonderful textbook. In the first generation the author worked hard and produced a text which, as a more contemporary version of the authoritative treatise on analytical dynamics of Edmund T. Whittaker, served graduate students as an introduction to classical mechanics and researchers for an accessible reference. In the second generation clarifications were made, bibliography added, and especially the role of symmetry was amplified altogether an improvement on the already excellent first edition. But in the third generation, the heirs went overboard, regressing on the old treatment and placing supposedly fashionable embellishments which turn out to be a distraction. Altogether a disaster the book is long-winded, having lost its original conciseness, while the extensions are better treated at length and in better detail elsewhere.

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July 29, 2003: This book was not bad. However, I have never seen newton's laws in the context of 5 dimensions. Using the additional 2 dimensions to incorporate non-linear dynamics was clever. These guys should be selling cupcakes with this type of abstract thinking. Kids will buy anything that tastes good and they havent seen before.