Preface
Preface to the second edition
Part Ⅰ NEWTONIAN MECHANICS
Chapter 1 Experimental facts
1.The principles of relativity and determinacy
2.The galilean group and Newton's equations
3.Examples of mechanical systems
Chapter 2 Investigation of the equations of motion
4.Systems with one degree of freedom
5.Systems with two degrees of freedom
6.Conservative force fields
7.Angular momentum
8.Investigation of motion in a central field
9.The motion of a point in three-space
10.Motions of a system of n points
11.The method of similarity
Part Ⅱ LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS
Chapter 3 Variational principles
12.Calculus of variations
13.Lagrange's equations
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