Classical Mechanics (Kibble and Berkshire book)

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Classical Mechanics (5th ed.) is a well-established textbook written by Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble, FRS, (born 1932) and Frank Berkshire of the Imperial College Mathematics Department. The book provides a thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of classical mechanics, a long-standing subject which is at the base of all of physics.

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Publication history

The English language editions were published as follows: The first edition was published by Kibble, as Kibble, T. W. B. Classical Mechanics. London: McGraw-Hill, 1966. 296 p.
The second ed., also just by Kibble, was in 1973 . The 4th, jointly with F H Berkshire, was is 1996 The 5th, jointly with F H Berkshire, in 2004

The book has been translated into several languages:

• French, by Michel Le Ray and Françoise Guérin as Mécanique classique
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• German
• Turkish, by Kemal Çolako?lu as Klasik mekanik
• Spanish, as Mecánica clásica
• Portuguese as Mecanica classica

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Reception

The various editions are held in 1789 libraries. In comparison, the various (2011) editions of Herbert Goldstein's Classical Mechanics are held in 1772. libraries

The fourth edition was reviewed by C. Isenberg in 1997 in the European Journal of Physics. It was also reviewed in New Scientist and Contemporary Physics.

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Contents (5th edition)

• Preface
• Useful Constants and Units
• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Linear motion
• Chapter 3: Energy and Angular momentum
• Chapter 4: Central Conservative Forces
• Chapter 5: Rotating Frames
• Chapter 6: Potential Theory
• Chapter 7: The Two-Body Problem
• Chapter 8: Many-Body Systems
• Chapter 9: Rigid Bodies
• Chapter 10: Lagrangian mechanics
• Chapter 11: Small oscillations and Normal modes
• Chapter 12: Hamiltonian mechanics
• Chapter 13: Dynamical systems and their geometry
• Chapter 14: Order and Chaos in Hamiltonian systems
• Appendix A: Vectors
• Appendix B: Conics
• Appendix C: Phase plane Analysis near Critical Points
• Appendix D: Discrete Dynamical Systems - Maps
• Answers to Problems
• Bibliography
• Index

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See also

• Newtonian mechanics
• Classical Mechanics (Goldstein book)

References

External links

• Official website doi:10.1142/p310

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