TY - BOOK AU - ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Mechanics: From Newtons Laws to Deterministic Chaos T2 - Advanced Texts in Physics, SN - 9783540267904 AV - Libro electrónico U1 - 531 23 PY - 2005/// CY - Berlin, Heidelberg PB - Springer Berlin Heidelberg KW - Physics KW - Quantum computing KW - Mechanics KW - Quantum Computing, Information and Physics N1 - Elementary Newtonian Mechanics -- The Principles of Canonical Mechanics -- The Mechanics of Rigid Bodies -- Relativistic Mechanics -- Geometric Aspects of Mechanics -- Stability and Chaos -- Continuous Systems; ZDB-2-PHA N2 - This updated and revised fourth edition covers all topics in mechanics from elementary Newtonian mechanics, canonical and rigid body mechanics to relativistic mechanics and nonlinear dynamics. In particular, symmetries and invariance principles, geometrical structures and continuum mechanics play an important role. This book will enable the reader to develop general principles from which equations of motions may be derived, to understand the importance of symmetries as a basis for quantum mechanics and to get practice in using theoretical tools and concepts that are essential for all branches of physics. The book contains numerous problems with complete solutions, and some practical examples.This will be appreciated in particular by students using the text to accompnay lectures on mechanics. The book ends with some historical remarks on important pioneers in mechanics UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/b138095 ER -