| Record Type: |
Electronic resources
: Monograph/item
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| Title/Author: |
Classical mechanics/ by Govind S. Krishnaswami. |
| Reminder of title: |
from particles to continua and regularity to chaos / |
| Author: |
Krishnaswami, Govind S. |
| Published: |
Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore : : 2025., |
| Description: |
xxv, 792 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. |
| [NT 15003449]: |
Mechanical systems with one degree of freedom -- Kepler's gravitational two-body problem -- Newtonian to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics -- Introduction to special relativistic mechanics -- Dynamics viewed as a vector field on state space -- Small oscillations for one degree of freedom -- Nonlinear oscillations: pendulum and anharmonic oscillator -- Rigid body mechanics -- Motion in noninertial frames of reference -- Canonical transformations -- Angle-action variables -- Hamilton-Jacobi equation -- Normal modes of oscillation and linear stability -- Bifurcations: qualitative changes in dynamics -- From regular to chaotic motion -- Dynamics of continuous deformable media -- Vibrations of a stretched string and the wave equation -- Heat diffusion equation and Brownian motion -- Introduction to fluid mechanics. |
| Contained By: |
Springer Nature eBook |
| Subject: |
Mechanics. - |
| Online resource: |
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-4476-3 |
| ISBN: |
9789819744763 |