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- Enables the reader to develop general principles from which equations of motions may be derived
- Highlights the importance of the concept of symmetries as a basis for quantum mechanics
- Contains over 120 problems with complete solutions, and several practical examples
- Completely revised and updated new edition, including new sections on Noether's and Steiner's theorem, early introduction of phase space and "bra and ket" symbolics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Graduate Texts in Physics (GTP)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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Institut für Physik, Universität Mainz, Mainz, Germany
Florian Scheck
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Mechanics
Book Subtitle: From Newton's Laws to Deterministic Chaos
Authors: Florian Scheck
Series Title: Graduate Texts in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05370-2
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-26046-9Published: 14 March 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-05370-2Published: 23 March 2010
Series ISSN: 1868-4513
Series E-ISSN: 1868-4521
Edition Number: 5
Number of Pages: XVI, 547
Number of Illustrations: 174 b/w illustrations
Topics: Classical Mechanics, Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Applications of Mathematics, Mathematical Methods in Physics, Dynamical Systems and Ergodic Theory