Classical mechanics of particles and rigid bodies/
Kiran C. Gupta
- New Delhi: New Age, 2008.
- xx, 657 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
The Lagrangian Formalism; Space-Time Symmetries and a Lagrangian Formulation of the Conservation Laws; The Hamiltonian Formalism; The Integration of Equations of Motion; Decay and Scattering Processes; Small Oscillations; The Kinematics and Dynamics of Rigid Body Motion; The Canonical Transformation Theory; The Hamilton-Jacobi Theory; The Special Theory of Relativity; Relativistic Classical Mechanics; Continuous Systems and Classical Fields; Nonlinear Oscillatory Systems.