Lectures on Classical Mechanics

These lecture notes cover Classical Mechanics at the level of second-year undergraduates. The book offers comprehensive as well as self-contained material that can be taught in a one-semester course for students with the minimal background knowledge acquired in preuniversity education or in the usual first-year overview. The presentation does not skip the technical details which renders the book particularly well-suited for the self-studying student.These lecture notes cover Classical Mechanics at the level of second-year undergraduates. The book offers comprehensive as well as self-contained material that can be taught in a one-semester course for students with the minimal background knowledge acquired in preuniversity education or in the usual first-year overview. The presentation does not skip the technical details which renders the book particularly well-suited for the self-studying student.Contents:

Kinematics

Dynamics

Conservative Forces

Pair Forces

Two-Body Systems

Gravitating Mass Distributions

Variational Problems

Principle of Stationary Action

Small-Amplitude Oscillations

From Lagrange to Hamiltonian

Rigid Bodies

Earth-Bound LaboratoriesKey Features:

The presentation does not skip the technical details which renders the book particularly well-suited for the self-studying student