Classical Mechanics: From Newton to Einstein: A Modern Introduction

This new edition of Classical Mechanics, aimed at undergraduate physics and engineering students, presents ina user-friendly style an authoritative approach to the complementary subjects of classical mechanics and relativity. 
The text starts with a careful look at Newton's Laws, before applying them in one dimension to oscillations and collisions. More advanced applications - including gravitational orbits and rigid body dynamics - are discussed after the limitations of Newton's inertial frames have been highlighted through an exposition of Einstein's Special Relativity. Examples given throughout are often unusual for an elementary text, but are made accessible to the reader through discussion and diagrams. Updates and additions for this new edition include: <ul>
<li>New vector notation in Chapter 1</li> <li>An enhanced discussion of equilibria in Chapter 2</li> <li>A new section on a body falling a large distance towards a gravitational source in Chapter 2</li> <li>New sections in Chapter 8 on general rotation about a fixed principal axes, simple examples of principal axes and principal moments of inertia and kinetic energy of a body rotating about a fixed axis</li> <li>New sections in chapter 9: Foucault pendulum and free rotation of a rigid body; the latter including the famous tennis racquet theorem</li> <li>Enhanced chapter summaries at the end of each chapter</li> <li>Novel problems with numerical answers</li> </ul>
A solutions manual is available at: www.wiley.com/go/mccall

Science & Math

McCall, Martin W.

Physics

John Wiley&Sons, Inc.

Classical Mechanics: A Modern Introduction

Classical Mechanics is a clear introduction to the subject, combining a user-friendly style with an authoritative approach, whilst requiring minimal prerequisite mathematics - only elementary calculus and simple vectors are presumed. The text starts with a careful look at Newton's Laws, before applying them in one dimension to oscillations and collisions. More advanced applications - including gravitational orbits, rigid body dynamics and mechanics in rotating frames - are deferred until after the limitations of Newton's inertial frames have been highlighted through an exposition of Einstein's Special Relativity. The examples given throughout are often unusual for an elementary text, although they are made accessible through discussion and diagrams. Complete revision summaries are given at the end of each chapter, together with problems designed to be both illustrative and challenging. Features: * Comprehensive introduction to classical mechanics and relativity * Many novel examples, e.g. stability of the universe, falling cats, crickets bats and snooker * Includes many problems with numerical answers * Revision notes at the end of each chapter

wiley

Hodgkinson's name appears first on the previous edition.

BIREFRINGENT THIN FILMS AND POLARIZING ELEMENTS (2ND EDITION)

Hodgkinson, Ian J.

Wu, Qihong

World Scientific Pub Co Inc

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