Provides the analytical mechanics of Lagrange and Hamilton, the basic tools of any physicist Includes a set of exercises, problems, and solutions Explains variational principles and charts their use throughout modern physics

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Jean-Louis Basdevant , graduated from Ecole Normale Supérieure (1958-1963), Ph.D. at Strasbourg University (1967), is Assistant Researcher and Director of Research at the CNRS (1963-2007), CERN (1970-1972), Professor at the Ecole Polytechnique (1969-2004), and Nominated Honorary Professor (2004).

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Inhalt

Chapter 1. Structure of physical theories.- Chapter 2. Variational Principles.- Chapter 3. The Analytical Mechanics of Lagrange.- Chapter 4. Hamilton's canonical formalism.- Chapter 5. Action, Optics, Hamilton-Jacobi equation.- Chapter 6. Lagrangian Field Theory.- Chapter 7. Motion in a Curved Space.- Chapter 8. Gravitational waves.- Chapter 9. Feynman's Path Integrals in quantum Mechanics.