Classical Mechanics: Point Particles and Relativity (Classical Theoretical Physics) 2004th Edition by Walter Greiner (PDF)

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Intended for advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students, this text is based on the highly successful course given by Walter Greiner at the University of Frankfurt, Germany. The two volumes on classical mechanics provide not only a complete survey of the topic but also an enormous number of worked examples and problems to show students clearly how to apply the abstract principles to realistic problems.

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⭐I first discovered Greiner’s textbooks while a graduate student (20+ years ago). At the time I was struggling through Jackson’s Electrodynamics and Merzbacher’s Quantum Mechanics. (Both outstanding books in terms of their depth, just difficult to slog through as a student.) I first purchased Greiner’s “Quantum Mechanics – An Introduction” and found it to be invaluable. The benefit of Greiner’s approach is the multitude of worked examples intermingled throughout the text. This is the approach used in all his textbooks. Regardless of your level, you’re bound to learn some new tricks or approaches to solving problems which builds on your own foundation and deepens your insight. Over the years I’ve purchased almost all of Greiner’s textbooks and have even updated the version of my original Quantum Mechanics.

⭐It was my dream since the school days to learn physics in its entirety. Whereas

⭐that I own (I read it at school before university in Russian translation) is a bit light and don’t include the developments of the past 40 – 50 years and Course of Theoretical Physics by Landau was a bit heavy for me at those times (although I read Mechanics volume in Russian and a few beginning chapters from other volumes) I finally found what I need: Theoretical Physics course from Walter Greiner. I have now the first 3 volumes (there are many more volumes including Quantum Electrodynamics, Gauge Theory of Weak Interactions, Quantum Chromodynamics) and just started reading the first one: Classical Mechanics: Point Particles and Relativity (Classical Theoretical Physics). It explains all necessary mathematics, has all derivations, lots of examples and illustrations, and even talks about dark matter (in the first classical mechanics volume). More important I also ordered the original German edition (Theoretische Physik. Klassische Mechanik I. Dynamik und Dynamik der Punktteilchen – Relativität) and reading both in parallel. This improves my German as well.Dmitry VostokovLiterate Scientist blog

⭐This book is divided into three parts. One third of the book covers mathematics that are useful for physics students. Roughly a third on classical mechanics. The topics on mechanics is quite similar to the beginning part of a typical classical mechanics textbook with an emphasis on harmonic oscillators and planetary motions. The rest is on special relativity. Compared to other classical mechanics textbooks, which usually devote one chapter on relativity, the discussion here is more involved. The intention of this book is for year-one students, who need to patch up their knowledge on mathematics and some basic physics knowledge before they tackle the more serious courses. I believe there is no standard curriculum for freshmen. Rather than teaching general physics, this book is definitely a more intensive training towards theoretical physics.I think this book needs some thought on the choice of materials. For the part on mathematics, is it supposed to be a review? This part feels like the author is putting together many topics which a physics student should know. I think the mathematics should be introduced with a proper context and in a coherent style such that the presentation does not feel that dry. Some topics are a bit too much, for example, I never heard of evolute and evolvent when studying the trajectory of a particle. For mechanics, there is a really long chapter on astronomy. While it would be nice for a beginning physics student to know a bit as a background knowledge, but still, it is too much in my opinion given that it is a book on classical mechanics. And it seems like the author wants us to know the history of physics. There are many footnotes on the bibliography of prominent physicists. While I appreciate the effort, many footnotes are very long, some are half a page, and even spans the whole page. I am not quite sure if a one-page footnote should be presented as a footnote.Overall, I did not give this book a very good rating. But I do not think that this is a bad book. It is certainly great to see a textbook designed specifically for year-one students. In particular, I appreciate the effort involved not in just writing this book, but the whole Greiner series. However, if I consider this book as a classical mechanics textbook, I really think that it needs to be revised. Having that said, I think this is good as a supplement because some of the discussions and problems are pretty nice.

⭐Este volumen del curso de física teórica del profesor Greiner es excelente como libro de texto y de empleo autodidacta para la autoenseñanza ya que contempla en forma general todos los aspectos de un curso de mecánica clasica.

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