Reference texts for PHYS 505

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Some suggestions for other reference texts that you may find helpful.

Mechanics:

• Classical Mechanics (3rd Edition) by Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole and John Safko
  Prentice Hall; 3rd edition (Jan 15, 2002); ISBN: 0201657023
  • Classic text, with more details that FW
• Mechanics by L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifshitz
  Butterworth-Heinemann; 3rd edition (Sept 1976); ISBN: 0750628960
  • Condensed presentation makes classic better as second text---but one with several gems.
• The Variational Principles of Mechanics by Cornelius Lanzcos
  Dover Pubns.; 4th edition (March 1986); ISBN: 0486650677
• Classical Mechanics: A Modern Perspective by Vernon Barger and Martin Olsson
  McGraw-Hill; 2nd edition (Dec 1994); ASIN: 0070037345
• Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics (Graduate Texts in Mathematics, No. 60) by V.I. Arnold, A. Weinstein and K. Vogtmann
  Springer-Verlag; 2nd edition (Aug. 1989); ISBN: 0387968903
  • For those wanting to delve into the more mathematical side of the subject
• Classical Mechanics by John R. Taylor
  Univ. Science Books; 1st edition (Aug. 2004); ISBN: 9781891389221
  • An undergraduate text that previous students have found useful to recall basics. Covers much of the same material that we do but in less depth