Methods of Analytical Dynamics

Publisher: Dover Publications
Number Of Pages: 544
Publication Date: 2004-01-13
Sales Rank: 706989
ISBN / ASIN: 0486432394
EAN: 9780486432397
Binding: Paperback
Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Studio: Dover Publications
Average Rating: 3

A balanced presentation that encompasses both formalism and structure in analytical dynamics, this graduate-level text discusses fundamentals of Newtonian and analytical mechanics, rigid body dynamics, behavior of dynamical systems, geometric theory, analytical solutions, transformation theory, problems in celestial mechanics and spacecraft dynamics, and more. 128 figures. 1970 edition.

Review:

Another attempt

This is not a bad book on classical mechanics. But whole sections of it are taken from other textbooks ( such as Goldstein), sometimes pictures and all. There are some unique applications however, and the sections on stability are good but nothing special. Nevertheless, this is another attempt to show an author's mastery of classical mechanics and that everything follows from Newton's three laws. Too bad a truly unique attempt way not made. Way too much of this book can be found just by reading Goldstein. The exposition here adds nothing.