A modern approach to classical mechanics - Iro, Harald (Singapore World Scientific, 2002)
The foundations of mechanics -- One-dimensional motion of a particle -- Encountering peculiar motion in two dimensions -- Motion in a central force field -- The gravitational interaction of two bodies -- Collisions of particles. Scattering -- Changing the frame of reference -- Lagrangian mechanics -- Conservation laws and symmetries in many particle systems -- The rigid body -- Small oscillations -- Hamilton's canonical formulation of mechanics -- Hamilton-Jacobi theory -- From integrable to non-integrable systems -- Coordinate systems and some vector analysis -- Rotations and tensors -- Green's functions.
"The first German edition of this book appeared in 1993, published by the Universit?atsverlag R. Trauner, Linz, Austria"--P. vi.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 433-436) and index.
Keywords: Mechanics; Statistical mechanics