The motion of material bodies formed the subject of some of the earliest researchpursued by the pioneers of physics. From their efforts there has evolved a vastfield known as analytical mechanics or dynamics, or simply, mechanics. In thepresent century the term "classical mechanics" has come into wide use to denotethis branch of physics in contradistinction to the newer physical theories, espe-especially quantum mechanics. We shall follow this usage, interpreting the name toinclude the type of mechanics arising out of the special theory of relativity. It isthe purpose of this book to develop the structure of classical mechanics and tooutline some of its applications of present-day interest i...
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