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Classical mechanics (European physics series)

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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.

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).

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.

I found this book to be a fantastic overview of classical mechanics. Having already had a fairly extensive background in undergraduate level math and physics, I found the level on which this book operates to be a perfect next step: very rigorous but clear, with many excellent problems at the end of each chapter which introduce important topics and provide a good range of difficulty. This would probably not be a good introduction to the topic, but would be excellent for anyone with at least the equivalent of a freshman physics and calculus course under their belt who wants a more advanced treatment.

Received the book in a timely manner. The picture is exactly what I got and everything was in the condition stated when the purchase was made. Overall, good transaction.