(April 21, 2017 at 2:05 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(April 20, 2017 at 3:11 am)Alex K Wrote: I just got permission that I can teach my engineering students Lagrangian mechanics. Woot, we're going to have so much fun!
Here's a great book, if you are not already using it:
https://books.google.com/books/about/Cla...kCtNr-pJsC
And, it's free! (Note that Taylor does confuse Pluto with Neptune near the end of the book, but other than that forgivable error by a physicist, the book is fantastic!)
P.S. I thought that it was free! (Damn.)
Ah, I have his Error Analysis book, I should look into it! I'm writing my own classical mechanics textbook right now btw., for the German market though.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition