Classical Mechanics (Kibble and Berkshire)

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Classical Mechanics

First edition
Author	Tom W. B. Kibble & Frank H. Berkshire
Language	English
Subject	Physics
Genre	Non-fiction; science text
Publisher	Imperial College Press
Publication date	2004
Publication place	UK
Pages	500
ISBN	978-1-86094-435-2 (pbk)

Classical Mechanics is a well-established textbook written by Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble 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.

The English language editions were published as follows:^[1] 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 published in 1973. The 4th, jointly with F H Berkshire, was published in 1996. The 5th, jointly with F H Berkshire, was published in 2004.

The book has been translated into several languages:

• French, by Michel Le Ray and Françoise Guérin as Mécanique classique
• Modern Greek, by Δ. Σαρδελής και Π. Δίτσας, επιμέλεια Γ. Ι. Παπαδόπουλος. Σαρδελής, Δ. Δίτσας, Π as Κλασσική μηχανική
• German
• Turkish, by Kemal Çolakoğlu as Klasik mekanik (stok kodu: 9789757477563)
• Spanish, as Mecánica clásica (ediciones Urmo, Bilbao, january/1987)
• Portuguese, as Mecânica clássica

The various editions are held in 1789 libraries.^[2] In comparison, the various (2011) editions of Herbert Goldstein's Classical Mechanics are held in 1772 libraries^[3]

The original edition was reviewed in Current Science.^[4] The fourth edition was reviewed by C. Isenberg in 1997 in the European Journal of Physics,^[5] and the fifth edition was reviewed in Contemporary Physics.^[6]

• 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

• Newtonian mechanics
• Classical Mechanics (Goldstein book)
• List of textbooks on classical and quantum mechanics

• Official website doi:10.1142/p310