经典力学新基础
2009-1
科学
赫斯腾萨
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This book provides an introduction to geometric algebra as an unified language for physics and mathematics. It containes extensive applications to classical mechanics in a textbook format suitable for courses at an intermediate level. The text is supported by more than 200 diagrams to help develop geometrical and physical intuition.Besides covering the standard material for a course on the mechanics of particles and rigid bodies, the book introduces new, coordinatefree methods for rotational dynamics and orbital mechanics,developing these subjects to a level well beyond that of other textbooks. These methods have been widely applied in recent years to biomechanics and robotics, to computer vision and geometric design, to orbital mechanics in governmental and industrial space programs, as well as to other branches of physics. The book applies them to the major perturbations in the solar system, including the planetary perturbations of Mercury's perihelion. Geometric algebra integrates conventional vector algebra (along with its established notations) into a system with all the advantages of quaternions and spinors. Thus, it increases the power of the mathematical language of classical mechanics while bringing it closer to the language of quantum mechanics. This book systematically develops purely mathematical applications of geometric algebra useful in physics, including extensive applications to linear algebra and transformation groups. It contains sufficient material for a course on mathematical topics alone. The second edition has been expanded by nearly a hundred pages on relativistic mechanics. The treatment is unique in its exclusive use of geometric algebra and in its detailed treatment of spacetime maps. collisions, motion in uniform fields and relativistic precession. It conforms with Einstein's view that the Special Theory of Relativity is the culmination of developments in classical mechanics.
作者：(美国)赫斯腾萨
PrefaceChapter 1: Origins of Geometric Algebra 1-1.Geometry as Physics 1-2.Number and Magnitude 1-3.Directed Numbers 1-4.The Inner Product 1-5.The Outer Product 1-6.Synthesis and Simplification 1-7.Axioms for Geometric AlgebraChapter 2: Developments in Geometric Algebra 2-1.Basic Identities and Definitions 2-2.The Algebra of a Euclidean Plane 2-3.The Algebra of Euclidean 3-Space 2-4.Directions, Projections and Angles 2-5.The Exponential Function 2-6.Analytic Geometry 2-7.Functions of a Scalar Variable 2-8.Directional Derivatives and Line IntegralsChapter 3: Mechanics of a Single Particle 3-1.Newton's Program 3-2.Constant Force 3-3.Constant Force with Linear Drag 3-4.Constant Force with Quadratic Drag 3-5.Fluid Resistance 3-6.Constant Magnetic Field 3-7.Uniform Electric and Magnetic Fields 3-8.Linear Binding Force 3-9.Forced Oscillations 3-10.Conservative Forces and ConstraintsChapter 4: Central Forces and Two-Particle Systems 4-1.Angular Momentum 4-2.Dynamics from Kinematics 4-3.The Kepler Problem 4-4.The Orbit in Time 4-5.Conservative Central Forces 4-6.Two-particle Systems 4-7.Elastic Collisions 4-8.Scattering Cross SectionsChapter 5: Operators and Transformations 5-1.Linear Operators and Matrices 5-2.Symmetric and Skewsymmetric Operators 5-3.The Arithmetic of Reflections and Rotations 5-4.Transformation Groups 5-5.Rigid Motions and Frames of Reference 5-6.Motion in Rotating SystemsChapter 6: Many-Particle Systems 6-1.General Properties of Many-Particle Systems 6-2.The Method of Lagrange 6-3.Coupled Oscillations and Waves 6-4.Theory of Small Oscillations 6-5.The Newtonian Many Body ProblemChapter 7: Rigid Body Mechanics 7-1.Rigid Body Modeling 7-2.Rigid Body Structure 7-3.The Symmetrical Top 7-4.Integrable Cases of Rotational Motion 7-5.Rolling Motion 7-6.Impulsive MotionChapter 8: Celestial Mechanics 8-1.Gravitational Forces, Fields and Torques 8-2.Perturbations of Kepler Motion 8-3.Perturbations in the Solar System 8-4.Spinor Mechanics and Perturbation TheoryChapter 9: Relativistic Mechanics 9-1.Spacetime and Its Representations 9-2.Spacetime Maps and Measurements 9-3.Relativistic Particle Dynamics 9-4.Energy-Momentum Conservation 9-5.Relativistic Rigid Body MechanicsAppendix A Spherical Trigonometry B Elliptic Functions C Units, Constants and DataHints and Solutions for Selected ExercisesReferencesIndex
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印刷质量还不错，但是有一本封面破了。
作者是大牛级人物。而且其写作水平也是大牛。很多复杂问题被他一介绍，感觉清晰无比。
一口气读完了第一章，讲述几何代数的源起，看情形作者是要使用几何代数作为基本的数学语言来描述经典力学。不错，有继续往下读的念头。