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5 stars
A brilliant introduction to classical mechanics. This is a topic in which it is quite hard to innovate: there are many great introductions to it. Nevertheless, and beginning at around half of the book, the spotlight is centered on the Lagrangian, which shows great results. The derivation of the Coriolis force is very nice, and so is the concept of "electromagnetic moment", which will be so important in their third book of the series (Special relativity and classical field theory). So is their description of Noether's theorem at such an early stage.
I have read it just once, but plan to re-read it several times, at least the last part.
A brilliant introduction to classical mechanics. This is a topic in which it is quite hard to innovate: there are many great introductions to it. Nevertheless, and beginning at around half of the book, the spotlight is centered on the Lagrangian, which shows great results. The derivation of the Coriolis force is very nice, and so is the concept of "electromagnetic moment", which will be so important in their third book of the series (Special relativity and classical field theory). So is their description of Noether's theorem at such an early stage.
I have read it just once, but plan to re-read it several times, at least the last part.