文档介绍：CLASSICAL
MECHANlCS
FOR PHYSICS
GRADUATE
STUDENTS
Ernesto Corinaldesi
World Scientific Publishing
ClASSl~AlMECHANICS
FOR PHYSI~S~RADUATE STUDENTS
CLASSICAL MECHANlCS
FOR PHYSICS CRADUATE ~TUDENTS
Ernest0 Carinaldesi
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Corinaldesi, E.
Classical mechanics for physics graduate students I Emesto
Corinaldesi.
p. cm.
lnciudes index.
ISBN 9810236255
I. Mechanics. 1. Title.
1998
531-dc21 98-48670
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Preface
This book evolved from my occasional teaching of graduate Classical Me-
chanics at Boston University.
In the late 1960’s I mended the well-known texts by H. Goldstein,
. Landau and . Lifshitz (?), and A. Sommerfeld. In the late 1980’s
I learned some modern differential geometry while catching up with gauge
field theory. Thus I became able to appreciate the elegance of . Arnold’s
Mathematical Methods of Classical