
Mechanics
From Newton's Laws to Deterministic Chaos
Florian Scheck(Author)
Springer (Publisher)
5th Edition
Published on 1. April 2010
Book
Hardback
XVI, 547 pages
978-3-642-05369-6 (ISBN)
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Description
Purpose and Emphasis. Mechanics not only is the oldest branch of physics but was and still is the basis for all of theoretical physics. Quantum mechanics can hardly be understood, perhaps cannot even be formulated, without a good kno- edge of general mechanics. Field theories such as electrodynamics borrow their formal framework and many of their building principles from mechanics. In short, throughout the many modern developments of physics where one frequently turns back to the principles of classical mechanics its model character is felt. For this reason it is not surprising that the presentation of mechanics re?ects to some - tent the development of modern physics and that today this classical branch of theoretical physics is taught rather differently than at the time of Arnold S- merfeld, in the 1920s, or even in the 1950s, when more emphasis was put on the theoryandtheapplicationsofpartial-differentialequations. Today, symmetriesand invariance principles, the structure of the space-time continuum, and the geom- rical structure of mechanics play an important role. The beginner should realize that mechanics is not primarily the art of describing block-and-tackles, collisions of billiard balls, constrained motions of the cylinder in a washing machine, or - cycle riding.
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Edition
5th ed. 2010
Language
English
Place of publication
Berlin
Germany
Publishing group
Springer Berlin
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Graduate
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
174 s/w Abbildungen
174 Illustrations, black and white; XVI, 547 p. 174 illus.
Dimensions
Height: 23.5 cm
Width: 15.5 cm
Weight
1015 gr
ISBN-13
978-3-642-05369-6 (9783642053696)
DOI
10.1007/978-3-642-05370-2
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Content
Elementary Newtonian Mechanics.- The Principles of Canonical Mechanics.- The Mechanics of Rigid Bodies.- Relativistic Mechanics.- Geometric Aspects of Mechanics.- Stability and Chaos.- Continuous Systems.