Methods of Differential Geometry in Analytical Mechanics: Volume 158
North-Holland (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 1989
Book
Hardback
482 pages
978-0-444-88017-8 (ISBN)
Description
The differential geometric formulation of analytical mechanics not only offers a new insight into Mechanics, but also provides a more rigorous formulation of its physical content from a mathematical viewpoint.Topics covered in this volume include differential forms, the differential geometry of tangent and cotangent bundles, almost tangent geometry, symplectic and pre-symplectic Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms, tensors and connections on manifolds, and geometrical aspects of variational and constraint theories.The book may be considered as a self-contained text and only presupposes that readers are acquainted with linear and multilinear algebra as well as advanced calculus.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
Elsevier Science & Technology
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-444-88017-8 (9780444880178)
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Methods of Differential Geometry in Analytical Mechanics
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08/2011
Elsevier
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Content
1. Differential Geometry. 2. Almost Tangent Structures and Tangent Bundles. 3. Structures on Manifolds. 4. Connections in Tangent Bundles. 5. Symplectic Manifolds and Cotangent Bundles. 6. Hamiltonian Systems. 7. Lagrangian Systems. 8. Presymplectic Mechanical Systems. Appendices: A Brief Summary of Particle Mechanics in Local Coordinates. Higher Order Tangent Bundles. Generalities. Bibliography. Index.