John Taylor has brought to his most recent 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 from
simple exercises to challenging computer projects.



Adopted by more than 450 colleges and
universities in the USA and Canada and translated into six languages, 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. The
author manages to convey that excitement as well as deep understanding and insight.


Ancillaries




A detailed Instructors'
Manual is available for adopting professors.
Art from the book may be downloaded by
adopting professors.