About this title: For thirty years this has been the acknowledged standard in advanced classical mechanics courses. This classic text enables students to make connections between classical and modern physics - an indispensable part of a physicist's education. In this new edition, Beams Medal winner Charles Poole and John Safko have updated the text to include the latest topics, applications, and notation, to reflect today's physics curriculum. They introduce students to the increasingly important role that nonlinearities play in contemporary applications of classical mechanics. New numerical exercises help ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date Published: 1959
Description: Fair. Hardcover. Notes and underlining heavy first 20 pages, sparse thereafter; initials lower text block. Covers heavily scuffed and scratched. Binding solid. Serviceable, but not pretty. read more
Description: *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* 399 pp., Hardcover, bookplate to front free endpaper, else text clean and tight. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Co
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good. Very Good Book in Poor Dust Jacket. Previous owner's name inside. Pages are clean and unmarked (no underlining, etc. ) Dust jacket shows heavy wear and stains. read more
Edition: 2nd ed.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison Wesley Publishing Company
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780201029185ISBN:0201029189
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Signed by previous owner. boards edges corners and spine all have normal wear, lots of pencil writing on a lot of the pages. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 672 p. Addison-Wesley Series in Physics. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Acceptable. Ships from the UK. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Your purchase also supports literacy charities. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley, Reading
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good/Very Good. . Hardcover, very good, w. v. ltly slanted sp, v. ltly bumped corners. V. ltly tanned p. edges. Ltly tanned eps. Sig, address on ffep, o/w cln, tight, unmarked. Dj very good, ltly rubbed, sme lt marks. Sme v. lt to lt tanning on r., flaps. In new mylar Brodart jacket. read more
Description: *Helping and promoting global literacy since 1961* Second Edition, 672 pp., Hardcover, previous owner's bookplate to front pastedown, else very good. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Date Published: 1950
Description: Good. No dust jacket. Highlighting/underlining. Signed by previous owner. hardcover, 1st ed, signed by previous owner on spine, scuffing & rubbing to spine, & corners, pages yellowing, some pen markings inside, text is very readable & intact. 399 p. Includes: illustrations, diagrams, index, bibliography. I ship anywhere, u.s. & international, shipment sent same day as order, books are kept in secure, clean location, open to inquiries from anywhere! read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley, Cambridge, MA
Date Published: 1950
Description: Very Good. No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. First printing (same date on CP and TP and no additional printings listed). 399 numbered pages including index. Lightly bumped at the spine ends and the top corners. Faded lettering, with some rubbing, on the spine. The spine is slightly slanted. Previous owner's name is on the front free endpaper and the title page. Otherwise the text is clean, bright and unmarked, and the binding is tight. read more
Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780201029185ISBN:0201029189
Description: VG+ No Dust Jacket 672pgs(Index) Owner name embossment on front endpaper, Title Page, small ink date stamp, number inside rear endpaper, o.w. clean, bright & Tight. Rest of book in Almost New condition. ISBN 0201029189. read more
Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780201029185ISBN:0201029189
Description: VG+ No Dust Jacket 672pgs(Index) Owner name embossment on front endpaper, small ink date stamp on last Index page, o.w. clean, bright & tight. Rest of book in. Almost New condition. ISBN 0201029189. read more
Edition: 2nd Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publ. Co., Reading, MA
Date Published: 1980
ISBN-13:9780201029185ISBN:0201029189
Description: VG+ No Dust Jacket 672pgs(Index) Owner name embossment on front endpaper, small ink date stamp on last Index page, o.w. clean, bright & tight. Rest of book in. Almost New condition. ISBN 0201029189. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Longman, Incorporated
Date Published: 1965
ISBN-13:9780201025101ISBN:0201025108
Description: Very good tightly bound hardcover with little wear and slight fading to the cloth with a faint old price stamp on the front free endpaper. Dust jacket is good plus to very good with edgewear and light general wear. Book is free of names and price-clipping and text markings and Is a sturdy hardback with a dust jacket and lots of miles remaining. Ships fast with delivery confirmation on all domestic orders. read more
"his style of teaching isnt as for a 2nd year student... its disappointing when it takes ages for you to cover mere one page...:) especially in the beginning of it... I also think that the book lacks some diagrams.. some of the terms that are very impotant in developing your understanding further in the book, will just be introduced briefly and thats no good I believe... but maybe its my fault that am not that used to self study ..:) by the way... Its a good book I should say.."
"This has got the best footnotes and endnotes ever for a textbook. An old roommate of mine in college (who was not a physics major) used to read it for fun because of the notes. My two favorites:
This is the first volume of the Course of Theoretical Physics, that monument to the genius of Lev Landau....The style might be described as that of "hand-waving arguments" written down on paper... (64)
Hence the jabberwockian sounding statement: the polhode rolls without slipping on the herpolhode lying in the invariant plane. (207)
Well, they still amuse me now, but they seemed much funnier when I was a student. This is the only intermediate-level classical mechanics book I ever used, so I can't say whether it's better or worse than others."
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