Methods of Differential Geometry in Analytical Mechanics
| By: | de León, M.; Rodrigues, P.R. |
| Publisher: | Elsevier S & T |
| Print ISBN: | 9780444880178 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780080872698 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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The differential geometric formulation of analytical mechanics not only offers a new insight into Mechanics, but also provides a more rigorous formulation of its physical content from a mathematical viewpoint.
Topics covered in this volume include differential forms, the differential geometry of tangent and cotangent bundles, almost tangent geometry, symplectic and pre-symplectic Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms, tensors and connections on manifolds, and geometrical aspects of variational and constraint theories.
The book may be considered as a self-contained text and only presupposes that readers are acquainted with linear and multilinear algebra as well as advanced calculus.