A Student's Guide to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians

* Physical This book is very well bound for a paperback and has a great clarity in the size of the fonts to the size of the page. * Target Audience This is aimed physics, engineering and mathematical 2nd to third year undergraduates with a prerequisite with an ability or comprehension with Vector Calculus and partial differential equations, and perhaps any prior exposure with Calculus of Variations. * Whats covered then? The book starts on basic reminder of calculus equations of motion, then jumps into the Euler - Lagrange equation that is the workhorse of this and other books using Calculus of Variations. This has the usual required level of prior exposure to how the way the Mathematical language is used to explore this topic. The major plank used in the Lagrangian physics defined as the difference between Kinetic and Potential energies and expressed within the standard Lagrangian - Euler equation. You find a constant methodology as applying the 'principle of superposition' comes up time and time again. The three most important laws within this books content are 'Conservation of Linear Momentum', the 'Conservation of Angular Momentum' and the 'Conservation of Energy'. If you know how each of the laws in symmetry terms as to how they work your O.K. The sections run another exposure to Calculus of Variations and how they can be applied with standard rules. The next parts cover a linking between Calculus of Variations which can be then applied with Lagrangian mechanics. The way these are explained uses a much stricter development with mathematical symbolic notation techniques. If your capable of reading this symbolic stuff its actually better way to take this lot in.This is needed as it generalizes to objects with many coordinates. I must say that explores 'Constraints and Lagrange's lambda method' (p77-83) a real eye - opener has to how this operates. The later parts use a link from Calculus of Variations through Lagrange transformation and into canonical Hamiltonian techniques tougher to take in, but this latter method is described as much more capable method to use in multiple objects, multiple coordinate mechanics. It goes onto three - dimensional techniques in a very efficient way. Some of the Poisson stuff is still a bit vague at the moment, but i am still chugging along and having fun taking it bit - by -bit. There are answers at the back of the book if your up for a challenge. * Summary This book is a grand way to explore at a primer level, this important area of applied mechanics and personally its been a treat to read. I started this in September to October 2014. and it been a stimulating book and the price is fine. I reread this book - April - May 2020 as I had advanced in another book and this reread really helped me. I have a deeper understanding than before. Don't worry about the length of time reading it, as long as you can take it as far as possible, that's all that matters.

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Texte clair bien que concis. Exercices nombreux et très instructifs. Conclusion: pédagogie excellente, convient pour apprendre seul, sans poser de questions

Want to see how Schröedinger got to his famous equation from Hamilton-Jacobi theory? If yes, get this book! Once I realized that this book, and let me say that I do not know any other book where this stuff is done or presented, had the basic path and derivation of Schröedinger's equation, that he himself used to arrived at it from Classical Mechanics and more specific from the Hamilton-Jacobi theory of Classical Mechanics,..... well.... I just said to myself : "You have to acquire this book" there is no other reason why I bought it and I am satisfied, it is also a short clean and good book on the topics that it advertises: Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics. Get it!

Perché non usate una carta migliore quando stampate questi titoli in UK? L'originale CUP costa quasi quanto la vostra copia, ma ha una qualità molto superiore. Confrontate ad esempio ISBN 978-1-107-64048-1 nella stessa serie. Volete competere con le edizioni indiane?Grazie