Classical Mechanics (Kibble and Berkshire)

Short description: Textbook by Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble and Frank Berkshire

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First edition

Author| Tom W. B. Kibble & Frank H. Berkshire
Country| UK
Language| English
Subject| Physics
Genre| Non-fiction; science text
Publisher| Imperial College Press

Publication date

| 2004
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.

## Contents

* 1 Publication history
* 2 Reception
* 3 Contents (5th edition)
* 4 See also
* 5 References
* 6 External links

## Publication history

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 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
* 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
* Spanish, as  Mecánica clásica
* Portuguese as  Mecanica classica

## Reception

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]

## 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

## See also

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

## References

1. ↑ World Cat author listing
2. ↑ World Cat item record
3. ↑ WorldCat item record
4. ↑ C V R (October 1966). "Current Science Vol.-35 No.-17". Current Science 35 (20): 526. https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.147456/page/n111.
5. ↑ Isenberg, C. (March 1997). "Review of Classical Mechanics, 4th ed.". European Journal of Physics 18 (2). doi:10.1088/0143-0807/18/2/017.
6. ↑ Solomon, Allan I. (November 2012). "Review of Classical Mechanics, 5th ed.". Contemporary Physics 53 (6): 542–543. doi:10.1080/00107514.2012.739661. Bibcode: 2012ConPh..53..542S.

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