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Introduction to Classical MechanicsWith Problems and SolutionsDavid MorinCambridge University Press |
Corrections/typos/errata/clarifications (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.)
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 and probability is located here or here (Version 4, August 30, 2009). This file contains the first three chapters (plus some appendices) of a potential book on Probability and Statistics. It does not assume knowledge of calculus. The first three chapters are titled ``Combinatorics,'' ``Probability,'' and ``Distributions.'' And Appendix B gives a nice little introduction to the natural logarithm, e. Future chapters on statistics will be added in the summer of 2010.
A chapter on Fourier analysis is located here or here (Version 1, November 28, 2009). This is from a potential book on Waves, designed for college sophomores.
Contact: morin@physics.harvard.edu