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- From: toon@moene.indiv.nluug.nl (Toon Moene)
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- Subject: Re: Question on Mechanics Books
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- Date: 9 Jan 93 00:10:25 GMT
- References: <CHUCK.93Jan8111553@stratus.drexel.edu>
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- In article <CHUCK.93Jan8111553@stratus.drexel.edu>
- chuck@stratus.drexel.edu (Wombozni Klik) writes:
- >
- > I have both Marion (1st editon) and Goldstein (which I bought but
- > haven't used officially in a class). The book my prof used was Landau
- > and Lifshitz, a very thin book that I like a lot and has helped me
- > quite a bit. My instructor used this, telling us that "Goldstein puts
- > him to sleep", but near the end of the term covered some stuff from
- > the back of Goldstein without telling us...
-
- :-) But if you really want to get woken up ... Use V.I. Arnol'ds
- Mathematical methods of Classical Mechanics. I've bought the book almost 9
- years ago, and still, every time I open it, I read something new,
- something I didn't understand before. Of course - as the title suggests -,
- it's highly biased towards the *mathematical* side of classical mechanics.
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