Devoted to the foundation of mechanics, namely classical Newtonian mechanics, the subject is based mainly on Galileo's principle of relativity and ...
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Jul 14, 2011
Joecolelife
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This book blew my mind when I first started to read it. Let me start by saying this may not be my first suggestion of a book to start with if you know nothing about classical mechanics. But once you know soemthing, then you can truly appreicate the beauty of the presentation in this book. Dont discredit the quality of this book just because its "soo thin". No matter how "thin" it is, it has just about everything you need to know about classical analytical mechanics. This book
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May 18, 2011
Bojan
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One of the most significant moments in my Physics education came during my sophomore year in college. I decided to pick up a copy of "Mechanics" by Landau and Lifshitz that was on reserve in the library for the mechanics class that I was taking. This is the first volume in the internationally renowned series of textbooks on theoretical Physics, the series that has a reputation for its sparse and difficult writing style, as well as the undoubted difficulty and brilliance of the material
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Jun 01, 2011
Ronald
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The definitive work on the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of mechanics. Be wary that you should have a working knowledge of differential geometry or a mastery of analytic geometry as it will be fully applied to physical problems. It is also very dense, but very well written. By density, one means that a typical sentence contains the information that an entire chapter in an undergraduate text would spend time expounding. It is up to the mature reader to motivate any necessary expansion of
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Sep 15, 2010
Jericho
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One of the best textbooks on mechanics I have ever read. It is clear and to the point without distracting tangents.
Apr 17, 2008
dead letter office
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there are no wasted words in this book, which makes it easily the most elegant presentation of classical mechanics i've ever seen. simultaneously a pleasure to read (when you see what's going on) and difficult to understand (when you don't). the starting point is the principle of least action, and newton's laws are only given as an afterthought.
it's hard to overstate the beauty of this text.
this is the first volume of the 10 volume landau/lifshitz course on physics, and b More...
it's hard to overstate the beauty of this text.
this is the first volume of the 10 volume landau/lifshitz course on physics, and b More...
May 23, 2009
DJ
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I read about half of this but realized it's not exactly the greatest introductory text to classical mechanics.
Landau seems to have attained god-like status among many physicists for his "great books," but these are really only great in retrospect, as unifiers of concepts once you've learned them elsewhere. His books generally lack motivation or links to natural phenomena. That said, if you're looking for an introduction to any topics in physics, avoid Landau.
Landau seems to have attained god-like status among many physicists for his "great books," but these are really only great in retrospect, as unifiers of concepts once you've learned them elsewhere. His books generally lack motivation or links to natural phenomena. That said, if you're looking for an introduction to any topics in physics, avoid Landau.
Oct 06, 2007
Cian
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A concise and (mostly) well-written textbook on mechanics that may be tough-going for some undergraduates who don't really know their maths beforehand.
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