Introduction to Classical Mechanics

With Problems and Solutions

David Morin

Cambridge University Press


Description of the book

Corrections/typos/errata (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:   Version 2 of Chapter 15 on Hamiltonian Mechanics is now posted. (Section titles: Energy, Hamilton's equations, Legendre transforms, Three more derivations, Phase space and Liouville's theorem.) It has the same text as Version 1 but contains some new problems and exercises.

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

Another set of (very hefty) problems, some of which appear in the book, is located here.

On the math side of things, an introduction to combinatorics is located here. This is the first chapter in a potential book on introductory Probability and Statistics, designed for people with a familiarity with algebra (no calculus required).

Contact: morin@physics.harvard.edu

 

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