Analytical Mechanics

Lecturer: Prof. Lev Vaidman
Assistants: Mr. Itay Hen

• Exercises given in 2004-2005:
  PDF:  1,   2,   3,   4,   5,   6,   7,   8,   9,   10,   11,   12,   13
  
• Solutions:
  
  

• Submission List:
  XLS:  here
  
  • Mailing list: http://post.tau.ac.il/archives/phy0321-2105-02.html

  • Bibliography - includes links to ALEPH database of the Library of Exact Sciences and Engineering

    (a) Main texbook:

    • Landau, L. D., & Lifshitz, E., M., Mechanics, 3rd ed.,Pergamon, 1976.
      

    (b) Secondary textbook:

    • Goldstein, H., Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed., Addison-Wesly, 1980., or 3rd ed., 2002.
      

  (c) Additional textbooks

  • L. N. Hand and J. D. Finch , Analytical Mechanics, Cambridge, 1998.
    

  you can also use the 1969 edition.

(d) Additional textbooks for advanced topics:

• V.I. Arnold, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed., Springer, 1989.
  
• Cornelius Lanczos, The Variational Principles of Mechanics, 4th ed., Dover 1966.
  

  (e) A good book of problems with solutions:

  • Kotkin G.L., Collection of Problems in Classical Mechanics, Oxford: Permagon, 1971

  • Exams
    • 97: a1, a2, b1, b2.
      
    • 98: a1, a2, b1, b2, c1, c2.
      
    • 2000 Moed A: doc, pdf.
      Solutions: doc, pdf .
      
    • 2000 Moed B: doc, pdf.
      Solutions: doc, pdf.
    • 2001: Exam_2001A.pdf, Exam 2001B.pdf,
    • 2002: Exam 2002A.pdf, Exam 2002B.pdf,
    • 2003: Exam 2003A.pdf, Exam 2003B.pdf,
    • 2005 Moed A: doc, pdf.
      Solutions: doc, pdf .
      

  • Formulas for exams given by Prof. Marek Karliner in 1998-9   (postscript, html)

  • A brief summary of "indexology": doc, pdf.
    

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