Grant R. Fowles

Mechanics was one of the first (if not the first) courses I followed in University. “Analytical Mechanics” is a brilliant junior level book that covers:

Newton’s Laws of Motion
Harmonic motion
Kepler’s Laws
Rigid bodies
Lagrangian Mechanics

The authors use real world examples such as falling raindrops to illustrate various concepts. The problems at the end of each chapter are quite challenging and interesting. There are also some numerical problems in the book, that should be solved with a computer. In my opinion there could have been more of those. The study group, that I was part of, ignored the “computer” problems completely.… (mehr)