Introduction to Classical Mechanics

With Problems and Solutions

David Morin

Cambridge University Press


Description of the book

Corrections/typos (pdf)

Sample chapters (pdf draft versions):
   Contents/Preface
   Chap1 (Strategies for solving problems)
   Chap6 (The Lagrangian method)
   Chap11 (Relativity - kinematics)

Index to limericks, by first line

Instructor support via Cambridge University Press website (solutions, exam/desk copies, etc.)

Google books

Buy online (Cambridge University Press, Amazon)

Additional material: I will post a chapter on the Hamiltonian formalism by July '08

If you like the limericks, here's some more physics humor (not related to the book) that you might enjoy.

Contact: morin@physics.harvard.edu

 

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