The book clearly and concisely explains the basic principles of Lagrangian dynamicsand provides training in the actual physical and mathematical techniques of applying Lagrange's equations, laying the foundation for a later study of topics that bridge the gap between classical and quantum physics, engineering, chemistry and applied mathematics, and for practicing scientists and engineers.
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For a subject as painful to learn as Classical Mechanics, this book does an decent job trying to teach it. At very least, it's much more accessible than many of the classical texts on the subject, such as "Classical Mechanics" by Goldstein.
The best aspect of this book is that it contains a large number of examples in every chapter. The drawback is that the author normally only sketches outlines for deriving the stated answers, and rarely are the examples fully worked out (disappointing; this breaks away from the model of other Schaum's texts). Nonetheless, I often found it useful to follow solve the author's example by myself, and then try and reconcile my techniques with what's mentioned in the text.
My main problem with the text was I think the author assumed too little mathematical knowledge on part of the reader. I write as an undergraduate, but I think by the time anyone starts learning classical mechanics, he or she probably has a little more math background than what's assumed in the book. For example, I don't think the cross-product is ever used, even when it could have made some explanations simpler. The end result is that often times the text delves into dry, drawn-out explanations that really aren't necessary, and the mathematical notation used is a bit of a mess.
As a side note, the author covers some cool topics that pretty much no one else talks about; for example this book has a really, really good chapter on dissipative forces.
In summary, it's a good book that's well worth its money (it's really cheap for a textbook, so that's a plus), but its not perfect. I might suggests using it conjunction with another text for cross referencing.
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I have used Schaums outlines to help with several subjects in Engineering and Physics. This book was printed in 1967. Steps are missing for many of the examples, and answers are only included for the problems in Chapter 2.
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As a graduate student in physics, I have collected many Schuam's Outlines over the years and usually find them very helpful. This one was not up to par. The derivations and example problems were very wordy and skipped over half the mathematical details - one problem I did from the book required eleven steps when I was finished and the book showed three. Some chapters had only a few worked example problems and dozens that are given simply "as an exercise to the reader."
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This is the best of Schaum's Outlines. Not only is the treatment of variational mechanics complete, with exposition on every major aspect of the derivation and solution dynamical... Read more
Published on July 2 2002 by J. Rantschler
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The best on Lagrangian Mechanics
If you would like to understand and know who to use Lagrange equation, look no further. This book provides both theory and practical application to Lagrange equation. Read more
Published on Mar 15 2001 by rabih alkhatib
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Excellent problems
This book contains some excellent problems and solutions. It was invaluable in understanding this material when I took my college junior mechanics class.
Published on Oct 23 2000 by Roberto C Garza
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This is one of the best Schaum's outlines.
This is a very detailed outline on Lagrangian mechanics. Many of the Schaum's series outlines deal only with some of the simplest problems, leaving the more diffucult problems to... Read more
Published on May 13 1999 by cbullock@python.physics.louisville.edu
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