Classical Mechanics

Leonard Susskind's Classical Mechanics is a brilliant and a crisp introduction to the subject. Make no mistake, this is not your usual popular science book with no equations. And this is because Classical Mechanics is a graduate subject. However "Lenny" is gentle and very kind to the novice reader. Every bit of math is defined and explained with simple examples. The first five lectures constitute a basic introduction to 11th standard mechanics. Vectors, trigonometry, and calculus serve as interludes to introductory discussions on motion, energy and dynamics. They are explained in a simple manner and I believe a motivated 9th grade student can understand his presentation. The emphasis on the principle of least action, from chapter 6 onwards, makes this book fun to read. Feynman's lecture (vol. 2) gives one talk on this idea but he does not develop it in detail. Susskind walks us through basic examples of effects in a linearly accelerating frame, circularly accelerating frame, the harmonic oscillator and many others. Hamilton's mechanics and Liouville's theorem are presented with an extraordinary clarity. The chapter which connects symmetries of this universe to conservation laws is exciting. It is really surprising that the conservation of energy, momentum, angular momentum can be explained by different symmetries in space and time. I can easily recommend this book to any beginner who has taken a basic course in mechanics (like prepared for JEE in 11th and 12th). On the other hand, any motivated person with high school level knowledge but a little aptitude in mathematics can appreciate the insights in this book.

If you wanna study for exams memorize things and write, this book is not for you. But, if you really want to understand the subject, This is your priority 1.Read this before the lectures start and you'll ace your CM exams.

A good book to understand classical mechanics

As with his other books, this book is also the same where Leonard sunshine has very elegantly explained the concepts of lagrangian and hamiltonian mechanics

Book by one of the big boss in physics of present times The book is very nice for anyone to have some introduction to classical mechanics.. Preliminary mathematics used through out the book. Very well written and engrossing to read i could not give up until i finished end to end. Exercises are spread through out the book, if you solve it boost self confidence in the theory.

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Good pacing. Takes you comfortably from high school level to Hamiltonian. The second half provides some great mental models for visualising any kind of 'change'.

Excellent book .... author doesn't need an introduction..... albeit you need to have a brim grasp on mathematics ... things escalate pretty quickly .....

A well written for students passionate in physics. However, do not be fooled by the title which states "Theoretical Mininimum". The book requires a basic to intermediate level of college mathematics to get a sense of what the author is saying. That being said, I feel a greater appreciation of the math I learned in school, and have often found myself stunned by author's ability to make a logical concurrence between abstract mathematics and empirical physics.

As a current student of classical (variational) mechanics, I was interested in this book as light reading, to get a bird's eye view of the subject from a master. It did not disappoint! It should go without saying: this book will provide you a depth of understanding shallow as a puddle-- nay, shallow as a layer of condensation. It is not possible to convey the dense material covered by a textbook like Goldstein or Lanczos with a shred of justice, in a book like this. You should know that going in. Such books are rewarding to read, but they are extremely dense, difficult even for graduate students. What this book has to offer is perhaps best summarised as a light introduction to 'what is it theoretical physicists think about exactly?' There were a few errors in the equations, which I find to be disappointing given the purported target audience of the book (readers who had an interest and educational background in physics or a related discipline). They could have corrected these in a new edition but they didn't. You can't have errors when you breeze through physics this quickly... in a textbook you see similar equations 10s if not 100s of times, and you understand all of the components. You can spot errors. Likewise I could spot errors because I was familiar with most of the content of this book already. But much of the audience is going to be tripped up! The typesetting on this book is awful. I can typeset better books myself. I guess the older physicists have never used LaTeX... anyway the equations look terrible and are hard to read. The 'dot' above a symbol indicating the time derivative is egregiously bad, floating far above the symbols and sometimes outside of parentheses enclosing the symbol. I did not bother with most of the exercises, as most were things I knew already. Where this book shines is the clarity of writing. They've done a fantastic job of conveying things lucidly. It was an enjoyable read, and was pretty much exactly what I was looking for.

The book is absolute amazing for classical mechanics but I recieved it damaged badly in the front cover the half of the cover was torn and damaged. The pages are safe except the cover so it's all good for me but I am disappointed because of the cover.

Not 5 because should follow the theoretical minimum series appearance just with the penguin logo

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