No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics: A Student-Friendly Introduction

No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics: A Student-Friendly Introduction

<p><b>Learning classical mechanics doesn’t have to be hard</b></p><p><i>What if there was a way to learn classical mechanics without all the usual fluff? What if there were a book that allowed you to see the whole picture and not just tiny parts of it?</i></p><p>Thoughts like this are the reason that No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics now exists.</p><p><b>What will you learn from this book?</b></p><ul><li>Get to know all fundamental mechanics concepts — Grasp why we can describe classical mechanics using the Lagrangian formalism, the Newtonian formalism, or the Hamiltonian formalism and how these frameworks are connected.</li><li>Learn to describe classical mechanics mathematically — Understand the meaning and origin of the most important equations: Newton's second law, the Euler-Lagrange equation and Hamilton's equations.</li><li>Master the most important classical mechanics systems — Read fully annotated, step-by-step calculations and understand the general algorithm we use to describe them.</li><li>Get an understanding you can be proud of — Learn about beautiful and deep insights like Noether's theorem or Liouville's theorem and how classical mechanics emerges in a proper limit of special relativity, quantum mechanics and general relativity.</li></ul><p><b>No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics is the most student-friendly book on classical nechanics ever written.</b></p><p>Here’s why.</p><ul><li>First of all, it's is nothing like a formal university lecture.  Instead, it’s like a casual conservation with a more experienced student. This also means that nothing is assumed to be “obvious” or “easy to see”.</li><li>Each chapter, each section, and each page focuses solely on the goal to help you understand. Nothing is introduced without a thorough motivation and it is always clear where each equation comes from.</li><li>The book contains <i>no fluff</i> since unnecessary content quickly leads to confusion. Instead, it ruthlessly focuses on the fundamentals and makes sure you’ll understand them in detail.</li></ul><p>The primary focus on the readers’ needs is also visible in dozens of small features that you won’t find in any other textbook<br></p><ul><li>In total, the book contains <i>more than 100 illustrations</i> that help you understand the most important concepts visually.<br></li><li>In each chapter, you’ll find <i>fully annotated equations</i> and calculations are done carefully step-by-step. This makes it much easier to understand what’s going on in.</li><i> Whenever a concept is used that was already introduced previously there is a short sidenote that reminds you where it was first introduced and often recites the main points.</i> <i> In addition, there are summaries at the beginning of each chapter that make sure you won’t get lost.</i></ul>