TY - BOOK TI - Classical mechnics U1 - 531 PY - 2002/// CY - New Delhi PB - Pearson N1 - 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 Oscillations 7 The Classical Mechanics of the Special Theory of Relativity 8 The Hamilton Equations of Motion 9 Canonical Transformation 10 Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and Action-Angle Variables 11 Classical Chaos 12 Canonical Perturbation Theory 13 Introduction to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Formulations for Continuous Systems and Fields Appendix A Euler Angles in Alternate Conventions and Cayley-Klein Parameters Appendix B Groups and Algebras Selected Bibliography Author Index Subject Index ER -