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Classical Mechanics by T Kibble and F Berkshire is tailor-made for budding theoreticians. It lays the groundwork for relativity and quantum theory, quickly progressing beyond Newtonian mechanics to the alternative formulations of Joseph Lagrange and William Hamilton. --New Scientist
[...] the student who requires a good book on the older aspects of Classical Mechanics together with a brief introduction to newer ideas will find the third edition useful. --Contemporary Physics
This volume, by Kibble and Berkshire, has proved to be a successful book ... the written content and presentation are all excellent. --European Journal of Physics
[...] the student who requires a good book on the older aspects of Classical Mechanics together with a brief introduction to newer ideas will find the third edition useful. --Contemporary Physics
This volume, by Kibble and Berkshire, has proved to be a successful book ... the written content and presentation are all excellent. --European Journal of Physics
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is a perfect guide for an undergraduate student in either mathematics or physics. Many good books have been written dealing mainly with quantum mechanics and many physics students seem to have no real knowledge of classical mechanics. This book tries to restore the balance. The earlier chapters cover the topics of rigid bodies, the Lagrangian and Hamilitonian approach to mechanics, while in this later edition a few new chapters deal with Dynamical systems, order and chaos (which only add to the strength of this book) The refreshing thing about this book is that, unlike many textbooks it is easy to follow through private study which is a credit to the authors.
6 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I recommend Hand and Finch above this book, but for a student who only wants 2nd-year-level exposition, Kibble and B might be preferred. The contents are bland and ordinary and straightforward, and at times wrong. For example, K+B perpetuate the nonsense that gyroscopic effects are important when a bicycle is going round a corner. Anyone who has ridden a scooter, or bikes with very light wheels, indeed any bike at all, will know this is rubbish. The fact that they get this wrong makes me mistrust the whole of the rest of the book. Go with Hand and Finch. H+F is cheaper and takes you to graduate level!
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Seriously lacking in worked examples
23 May 2011
Format:Paperback
This is basically the most abstract classical mechanics book at the senior undergraduate level. While there are merits to this abstractness, it's not the best book to use when you're first starting to learn upper-division CM. The lack of worked examples certainly makes learning certain topics significantly more time-consuming - especially topics in later chapters, like coupled pendulums and rigid-body rotations. If you want more worked examples, you probably should use Marion and Thornton (or Fowles and Cassidy) as a supplement (or as a main text).
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
An elegant and delight treatise on C. M.
25 July 2008
Format:Paperback
I've just finished up to Chapter 4 and
everything I read is excellent. It has
very good reviews of vectors and tensors
in the appendix. Answers to the exercises
are also provided.
everything I read is excellent. It has
very good reviews of vectors and tensors
in the appendix. Answers to the exercises
are also provided.
17 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Great book for those needing a good physics reference
9 Jan 2007
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This book covers a huge amount of classic physics techniques and theories. I bought it for the Hamiltonian section but I really like reading it. Note - I am not a physicist but I have a masters in math and do a lot of reading for amusement in physics of all kinds.
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