Classical mechanics (3^rd Ed.)

For more than 30 years, Classical Mechanics has been the standard text for advanced and graduate level courses on the subject. This revision retains all the best features of the Second Edition while including new material reflecting advances in nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and fractal geometries.

1. Survey of the Elementary Principles. 2. Variational Principles and LaGrange's Equations. 3. The Central Force Problem. 4. The Kinematics of Rigid Body Motion. 5. The Rigid Body Equations of Motion. 6. Small Oscillations. 7. The Classical Mechanics of the Special Theory of Relativity. 8. The Hamilton Equations of Motion. 9. Canonical Transformations. 10. Hamilton-Jacobi Theory. 11. Classical Chaos. 12. Canonical Perturbation Theory. 13. Introduction to the LaGrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations for Continuous Systems and Fields.