Classical Mechanics

The first edition of this text appeared in 1950, and it was so well received that it went through a second printing the very next year. Throughout the next three decades it maintained its position as the acknowledged standard text for the introductory Classical Mechanics course in graduate level physics curricula throughout the United States, and in many other countries around the world. Some major institutions also used it for senior level undergraduate Mechanics. Thirty years later, in 1980, a second edition appeared which was “a through-going revision of the first edition.” The preface to the second edition contains the following statement: “I have tried to retain, as much as possible, the advantages of the first edition while talcing into account the developments of the subject itself, its position in the curriculum, and its applications to other fields.” This is the philosophy which has guided the preparation of this third edition twenty more years later