Classical Mechanics: An Overview

For the most part, the book presents the same material that is usually covered in a typical first course in mechanics. There are, however, several noteworthy exceptions to this where the material presented here reaches beyond this boundary. Among these are the material on the dot and cross products of vectors, the analysis of the two-body problem, the discussion of flux and Gauss’s theorem, the calculation of particular gravitational field configurations, and the philosophical assertions ab...