Classical Mechanics
- Book Review,
by John R. Taylor
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This text is intended for students of the physical sciences, especially physics, who have already studied some mechanics as part of an introductory physics course. Part I contains 11 chapters of essential material that should be read in sequence, and Part II contains five mutually independent chapters on advanced topics, such as collision theory and special relativity. Learning features include graded exercises applying and extending chapter concepts. Problems requiring the use of computers are not software-specific. Taylor teaches physics at the University of Colorado-Boulder.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
American Journal of Physics, April 2004
"A superb text. The clarity and readability of the book is so much better than anything else on the market."
Robert Pompi, State University of New York, Binghamton
"The book is excellent. The core of a truly superb mechanics course is covered in Taylor's text."
Joel Fajans, University of California, Berkeley
"Many of my students thought that Taylor's Classical Mechanics was the clearest textbook that they had ever used."
Book Description
John Taylor has brought to his new book, Classical Mechanics, all of the clarity and insight that made his Introduction to Error Analysis a best-selling text. Classical Mechanics is intended for students who have studied some mechanics in an introductory physics course, such as "freshman physics." With unusual clarity, the book covers most of the topics normally found in books at this level, including conservation laws, oscillations, Lagrangian mechanics, two-body problems, non-inertial frames, rigid bodies, normal modes, chaos theory, Hamiltonian mechanics, and continuum mechanics. A particular highlight is the chapter on chaos, which focuses on a few simple systems, to give a truly comprehensible introduction to the concepts that we hear so much about. At the end of each chapter is a large selection of interesting problems for the student, 744 in all, classified by topic and approximate difficulty, and ranging for simple exercises to challenging computer projects. Already in its Second Printing, Taylor's Classical Mechanics is a thorough and very readable introduction to a subject that is four hundred years old but as exciting today as ever.
About the Author
Professor John Taylor is the author of three best-selling textbooks, including Introduction to Error Analysis and Modern Physics. He is Professor of Physics and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado in Boulder, where he has won numerous teaching awards, served as Associate Editor of the American Journal of Physics, and received an Emmy Award for his television series called "Physics 4 Fun."
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