TY - BOOK AU - Rana,Narayan Chandra AU - Joag Pramod Sharadchandra TI - CLASSICAL MECHANICS SN - 9780074603154 U1 - 531 PY - 1991/// CY - New Delhi, India : PB - Tata McGraw-Hill Pub. Co., KW - Mechanics, Analytic. KW - CLASSICAL MECHANICS KW - CARTESIAN COORDINATES N1 - Chapter 1 Constrained Motions in Cartesian Coordinates ; Chapter 2 Lagrangian Formulation in Generalised Coordinates ; Chapter 3 Rotating Frames of Reference ; Chapter 4 Central Force ; Chapter 5 Hamilton's Equations of Motion ; Chapter 6 Principles of Least Action and Hamilton's Principle ; Chapter 7 Brachistochrones, Tautochrones and the Cycloid Family ; Chapter 8 Canonical Transformations ; Chapter 9 The Poisson Bracket ; Chapter 10 Hamilton-Jacobi Theory ; Chapter 11 Small Oscillations ; Chapter 12 Rigid Body Dynamics ; Chapter 13 Elasticity ; Chapter 14 Fluid Dynamics N2 - The book presents a lucid treatment of classical mechanics with an emphasis on the understanding of the fundamentals. It develops an appreciation of the versatility of practically all the fundamental principles of Physics. The book incorporates the recent developments in classical mechanics over the past four decades, and discusses in detail such topics as constrained systems, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian systems, canonical transformations, Hamilton jacobi theory, small oscillations, rigid body dynamics, central force problems, elasticity and fluid mechanics ER -