文档介绍：M. C. CALKIN
Duihousie Universi~
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PREFACE
This book grew out of notes for a one-semester course in classical mechanics
which I have taught for many years to senior and, more recently, junior physics students
at Dalhousie University. These students have norrnally taken one semester in mechanics
at the introductory level and one semester at the xecond year level; my course is their
final exposure to mechanics as undergraduates. The original aim of the course was to
introduce the student, in the more familiar setting of classical mechanics, to those ideas
and terms which he or she would later encounter in modified form in quantum
mechanics: Lagrangian, action, Hamiltonian, Poisson brackets, canonical
transformations, etc. In recent years, with the resurgence of interest in mechanics,
especially non-linear d