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Binding: HardcoverDewey Decimal Number: 531 EAN: 9780262194556 ISBN: 0262194554 Label: The MIT Press Manufacturer: The MIT Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 526 Publication Date: March 19, 2001 Publisher: The MIT Press Studio: The MIT Press Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: This textbook takes an innovative approach to the teaching of classical mechanics, emphasizing the development of general but practical intellectual tools to support the analysis of nonlinear Hamiltonian systems. The development is organized around a progressively more sophisticated analysis of particular natural systems and weaves examples throughout the presentation. Explorations of phenomena such as transitions to chaos, nonlinear resonances, and resonance overlap to help the student to develop appropriate analytic tools for understanding. Computational algorithms communicate methods used in the analysis of dynamical phenomena. Expressing the methods of mechanics in a computer language forces them to be unambiguous and computationally effective. Once formalized as a procedure, a mathematical idea also becomes a tool that can be used directly to compute results. The student actively explores the motion of systems through computer simulation and experiment. This active exploration is extended to the mathematics. The requirement that the computer be able to interpret any expression provides strict and immediate feedback as to whether an expression is correctly formulated. The interaction with the computer uncovers and corrects many deficiencies in understanding. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The tragedy isthat despite being a brilliant book, the best part, the executable code is extremely difficult to run as it works only on an obscure MIT scheme implementation. It would easily earn 5 stars if it ran in PLT scheme for instance. Rating: - Expensive book... worth a look onlineIf you're reading this review now, you're considering whether this text is worthy of your [money]. Well, stop the guessing, and just read the darn thing for free at [the website] I've found the first part of it is the same classical stuff I've seen over and over, but in a new light, differently perceived, and worthy of, sometimes, just closing the book and thinking about the implications. Take what I say with a grain of salt, as I've not nearly read everything. See for yourself, as well. ... Read More Rating: - New milestoneI can't rave enough -- by page 27, Sussman crisply solves a fundamental problem that I noticed as a schoolboy decades ago, and for which I never found a satisfactory solution despite discussing it with generations of the world's finest physicists, and that is, how, in Lagrange's equation, can @L/@q be treated independently of @L/@q_dot when q_dot depends on q through dq/dt=q_dot by assumption? Having had a lifelong mystery dispatched in a footnote, I am breathlessly working my way through the rest. ... Read More Rating: - Structure and Interpretation of a Great TextAmong the horrors of modern education is the production of vast quantities of poorly written, error ridden science text books. This is in spite of the fact that many if not most of the great scientists of the 20th century have been excellent writers and lecturers. Einstein and Feynman are important examples: brilliant in their discoveries, they were equally brilliant in their abilities to describe and explain some of the most difficult concepts of science. We should be asking why these people can write ... Read More 
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