TY - BOOK AU - J.C. UPADHYAYA TI - CLASSICAL MECHANICS SN - 9789351427988 U1 - 531 PY - 2006/// CY - HIMALAYA PUBLISHING HOUSE PB - NEW DELHI KW - CLASSICAL MECHANICS KW - 1. INTRODUCTORY IDEAS 2. LANGRANGIAN DYNAMICS 3. HAMILTONIAN DYNAMICS 4. TWO-BODY CENTRAL FORCE PROBLEM 5. VARIATIONAL PRINCIPLES 6. CANONICAL TRANSFORMATIONS 7. BRACKETS AND LIOUVILLE`S THEOREM 8. HAMILTON-JACOBI THEORY AND TRANSITION TO QUANTUM MECHANICS 9. SMALL OSCILLATIONS AND NORMAL MODES (COUPLED-OSCILLATORS) 10. DYNAMICS OF A RIGID BODY 11. NONINERTIAL AND ROTATING COORDINATE SYSTEMS 12. SPECIAL THEORY OF RELATIVITY-LORENTZ TRANSFORMATIONS 13. RELATIVISTIC MECHANICS 14. FOUR DIMENSIONAL FORMULATION-MINKOWSKI SPACE 15. CONVARIANT FORMULATION OF ELECTRODYNAMICS 16. NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS ER -