Book: Classical Mechanics (Tatum)
- Page ID
- 6924
Classical mechanics is the study of the motion of bodies (including the special case in which bodies remain at rest) in accordance with the general principles first enunciated by Sir Isaac Newton in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica (1687), commonly known as the Principia.
Front Matter
1: Centers of Mass
2: Moments of Inertia
3: Systems of Particles
4: Rigid Body Rotation
5: Collisions
6: Motion in a Resisting Medium
7: Projectiles
8: Impulsive Forces
9: Conservative Forces
10: Rocket Motion
11: Simple and Damped Oscillatory Motion
12: Forced Oscillations
13: Lagrangian Mechanics
14: Hamiltonian Mechanics
15: Special Relativity
16: Hydrostatics
17: Vibrating Systems
18: The Catenary
19: The Cycloid
20: Miscellaneous
21: Central Forces and Equivalent Potential
22: Dimensions
Back Matter
Thumbnail: Proper Euler angles geometrical definition. The xyz (fixed) system is shown in blue, the XYZ (rotated) system is shown in red. The line of nodes (N) is shown in green. Image used with permission (CC BY 3.0; Lionel Brits).