Photoelectronic imaging devices, Vol. I,: Lucien M. Biberman and Sol Nudelman. 430 pages, diagrams, 6 x 9 in. New York, Plenum Press, 1971.

✍ Scribed by Gerald E. Kron

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1973
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 80 KB
• Volume: 296
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0016-0032
• DOI: 10.1016/0016-0032(73)90805-3

✦ Synopsis

The discussion on rigid body motion is an extended application of the techniques introduced in the preceding chapter. The most important chapters in the book, in the opinion of the reviewer, develop the theory through the Hamiltonian formulation, canonical transformations and the Hamilton-Jacobi equation. The coverage of canonical transformations and their classification is outstanding, as is the treatment of the HamiltonJacobi equation. The discussion of solutions of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation is particularly illuminating. Canonical perturbation theory and adiabatic invariance are handled expertly and completely. The final two chapters, on classical field theory and the group theoretical approach to classical mechanics, introduce the student to methods which carry over directly into quantum mechanics and are also of current research interest in mechanics itself. Theoretical Mechanics is recommended without reservation as a text and as a reference for physicists who want to know the truth about classical mechanics.