Includes bibliographical references (pages 617-621) and indexes.
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Survey of the elementary principles -- Variational principles and Lagrange's equations -- The central force problem -- The kinematics of rigid body motion -- The rigid body equations of motion -- Oscillations -- The classical mechanics of the special theory of relativity -- The Hamilton equations of motion -- Canonical transformations -- Hamilton-Jacobi Theory and action-angle variables -- Classical chaos -- Canonical perturbation theory -- Introduction to the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations for continuous systems and fields -- Appendix A: Euler angles in alternate conventions and Cayley-Klein parameters -- Appendix B: Groups and algebras.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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This revision retains the best features of the Second Edition while including new material reflecting advances in nonlinear dynamics, chaos, and fractal geometries.