The Shaggy Steed of Physics: Mathematical Beauty in the Physical World 2nd Edition by David Oliver (PDF)

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The Shaggy Steed is an unassuming figure from Irish folklore who reveals himself as an inspiring teacher of the forces hidden in the universe. This book celebrates an unassuming bit of physics that also turns out to be an inspiring teacher. The two-body problem – the motion of two bodies bound by the inverse-square force of gravity and electricity – is the Shaggy Steed of physics, guiding the reader to an understanding of both the forces and the mathematical beauty hidden in the physical world.

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⭐If you are interested in science and spirituality you will enjoy “The Shaggy Steed of Physics: Mathematical Beauty in the Physical World”.

⭐This is an elegant and short, yet comprehensive, account of analytical mechanics that ties the whole subject from classical physics to quantum mechanics into a conceptual unity. Opening with an Irish tale of the shaggy steed, the work derives all the basics of the Langrangian and Hamiltonian with dispatch and has a quality of brevity and completeness that is remarkable, perhaps due to the nature of the subject matter itself, in the elegant enigmas of the ‘action principle’. This field not being my specialty (an understatement), and after beating a hasty retreat to the Schaum outline of Lagrangian Mechanics for some quick refresher calisthenics I was able to scratchpad my way into a birdseye view of the subject, in a way that threw a new light on the genesis of Quantum Mechanics, the grandchild of these novel formulations of physics using their ‘maths with a wallop’ that began appearing in the generations after Newton. For crackshots in this field the more advanced material on invariants and Noether’s theorem bind the material into a still deeper splendid unity. Amazing book.

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