Classical Mechanics Student Solutions Manual

by John R Taylor, Jeff Adams, Greg Francis

Overview

This is the authorized Student Solutions Manual for John R. Taylor's internationally best-selling textbook, Classical Mechanics.
In response to popular demand, University Science Books is delighted to announce the one and only authorized Student Solutions Manual for John R. Taylor’s internationally best-selling textbook, Classical Mechanics. This splendid little manual, by the textbook’s own author, restates the odd-numbered problems from the book and the provides crystal-clear, detailed solutions. Of course, the author strongly recommends that students avoid sneaking a peek at these solutions until after attempting to solve the problems on their own! But for those who put in the effort, this manual will be an invaluable study aid to help students who take a wrong turn, who can’t go any further on their own, or who simply wish to check their work. Now available in print and ebook formats.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781940380032
Publisher:	MIT Press
Publication date:	07/10/2020
Edition description:	2020
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	8.56(w) x 11.00(h) x 0.47(d)

About the Author

John Taylor received his B.A. in math from Cambridge University in 1960 and his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Berkeley in 1963. He is professor emeritus of physics and Presidential Teaching Scholar at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He is the author of some 40 articles in research journals; a book, Classical Mechanics; and three other textbooks, one of which, An Introduction to Error Analysis, has been translated into eleven foreign languages. He received a Distinguished Service Citation from the American Association of Physics Teachers and was named Colorado Professor of the Year in 1989. His television series Physics for Fun won an Emmy Award in 1990. He retired in 2005 and now lives in Washington, D.C.

Table of Contents

Preface
PART I ESSENTIALS
1 Newton’s Laws of Motion
2 Projectiles and Charged Particles
3 Momentum and Angular Momentum
4 Energy
5 Oscillations
6 Calculus of Variations
7 Lagrange’s Equations
8 Two-Body Central-Force Problems
9 Mechanics in Noninertial Frames
10 Rotational Motion of Rigid Bodies
11 Coupled Oscillators and Normal Modes
PART II FURTHER TOPICS
12 Nonlinear Mechanics and Chaos
13 Hamiltonian Mechanics
14 Collision Theory
15 Special Relativity
16 Continuum Mechanics

Editorial Reviews

"It is a fabulous example of clarity and precision – one of my very favorite physics texts." —Ben Newling, University of New Brunswick

"It is immensely readable, a quality that comparable texts lack." —Jonathan Friedman, Amherst College

"The book is excellent. The core of a truly superb mechanics course is covered in Taylor’s text." —Robert Pompi, State University of New York, Binghamton

From the Publisher

It is immensely readable, a quality that comparable texts lack.

Jonathan Friedman

The book is excellent. The core of a truly superb mechanics course is covered in Taylor’s text.

Robert Pompi

It is a fabulous example of clarity and precision – one of my very favorite physics texts.

Ben Newling

A superb text…I judge it to be at least ten times better, maybe more, than the other two popular classical mechanics books on the market right now.

American Journal of Physics