TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gregory, R. Douglas
TI  - Classical mechanics: : An undergraduate text
SN  - 9780521733120
PY  - 2006///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press,   
KW  -  Classical mechanics
KW  -  Mechanics
KW  - Physics
N1  - Appendix 564-575p.; Bibliography 589-590p.; Index 591-596p
N2  - Mechanics is a stream of science that describes the motion of objects such as projectiles, machinery parts, stars, spacecraft, galaxies and planets. Classical Mechanics is a new book in physics and mathematics for undergraduates. Its author, Douglas Gregory, has explained the subject in a thorough and self - contained manner, so that even a difficult topic is made easy and interesting for the students.

The book presents the concepts in a systematic style and aims to provide a clear understanding of each concept covered. It explains each concept with the help of solved examples and there are several sets of problems to provide the readers with scope for plenty of practice. The book also includes computer - aided problems that are relevant to the projects given. The diagrams and figures used in it are well drawn. The author, through this book, makes a crisp distinction between static and moving constraints as well as between holonomic and nonholonomic constraints.

The book has been designed in such a manner that the students find it easy to learn the subject. The author ensures that the progression from the core topics to the advanced topics is natural and smooth. The tough topics are treated with special care. The importance of conservation principles is an important theme of the book. These principles are first found in vectorial mechanics and appear again in analytical mechanics
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