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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Reviews
"Symmetry in Mechanics is directed to students at the undergraduate level and beyond, and offers a lovely presentation of the subject . . . The first chapter presents a standard derivation of the equations for two-body planetary motion. Kepler's laws are then obtained and the rule of conservation laws is emphasized. . . . Singer uses this example from classical physics throughout the book as a vehicle for explaining the concepts of differential geometry and for illustrating their use. These ideas and techniques will allow the reader to understand advanced texts and research literature in which considerably more difficult problems are treated and solved by identical or related methods. The book contains 122 student exercises, many of which are solved in an appendix. The solutions, especially, are valuable for showing how a mathematician approaches and solves specific problems. Using this presentation, the book removes some of the language barriers that divide the worlds of mathematics and physics."
—Physics Today
"This is a very interesting book. Those educated in traditional mechanics will acquire [from reading it] knowledge of modern mathematics hidden beyond traditional concepts in the realm of celestial mechanics, [and] . . . pure mathematicians will understand how their discipline enters into practical problems. The author shows how fundamental concepts of symplectic geometry implicitly occur in mechanics . . . the mathematical presentation is ingenious and subtle. There are a lot of exercises for the reader and the solutions of most of them are given in a separate chapter. I can highly recommend this book to undergraduate and PhD students . . . it is ideally suited for teaching a course on the subject."
—Mathematical Reviews
Authors and Affiliations
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Philadelphia, USA
Stephanie Frank Singer
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Symmetry in Mechanics
Book Subtitle: A Gentle, Modern Introduction
Authors: Stephanie Frank Singer
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0189-2
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Stephanie Frank Singer 2004
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-4145-0Published: 01 March 2001
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-0189-2Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 193
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Topological Groups, Lie Groups, Applications of Mathematics, Differential Geometry, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics