This best-selling classical mechanics text, written for the advanced undergraduate one- or two-semester course, provides a complete account of the classical mechanics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies. Vector calculus is used extensivel
1. Matrices, Vectors, and Vector Calculus. 2. Newtonian Mechanics--Single Particle. 3. Oscillations. 4. Nonlinear Oscillations and Chaos. 5. Gravitation. 6. Some Methods in the Calculus of Variations. 7. Hamiltons Principle--Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dyn