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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 June 2012
      08 May 1997
      ISBN:
      9781139170932
      9780521481328
      9780521578820
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139170932
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.97kg, 488 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 488 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, Engineering Design, Kinematics, and Robotics, General and Classical Physics
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    Physics and Astronomy, Engineering, Engineering Design, Kinematics, and Robotics, General and Classical Physics
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    This is an advanced 1997 text for first-year graduate students in physics and engineering taking a standard classical mechanics course. It was the first book to describe the subject in the context of the language and methods of modern nonlinear dynamics. The organising principle of the text is integrability vs. nonintegrability. Flows in phase space and transformations are introduced early and systematically and are applied throughout the text. The standard integrable problems of elementary physics are analysed from the standpoint of flows, transformations, and integrability. This approach then allows the author to introduce most of the interesting ideas of modern nonlinear dynamics via the most elementary nonintegrable problems of Newtonian mechanics. This text will be of value to physicists and engineers taking graduate courses in classical mechanics. It will also interest specialists in nonlinear dynamics, mathematicians, engineers and system theorists.

    Reviews

    ‘I believe that this book is both a significant and timely, and indeed personal, contribution to the literature on mechanics, and one which will sit comfortably alongside other definitive Cambridge publications.’

    Nigel Steele Source: The Times Higher Education Supplement

    ‘ … remarkable imagination and insight … a godsend to any enterprising and conscientious teacher newly designing a classical mechanics course.’

    G. Barton Source: Contemporary Physics

    ‘The book will be valuable to physicists and engineers studying the classical mechanics. It will also be of interest to specialists in nonlinear dynamics, mathematicians, and system theorists.’

    V. Marinca Source: Zentralblatt MATH

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