Volume 1: Classical Mechanics
Any education in theoretical physics begins with the laws of classical mechanics. This is where it all starts.
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The table of contents can be downloaded here.
Exercises
The exercises below have been created and curated over many decades by members of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at the University of Cambridge. The faculty have long had a generous policy of making these examples sheets (and indeed exam questions) publicly available. The questions come from two courses -- a first year course called "Dynamics and Relativity" and a third year course called "Classical Dynamics". Each of these examples sheets is correlated to chapters in the book.
- Chapters 1 and 2: PDF Forces.
- Chapters 4 and 5: PDF Systems of particles and orbits.
- Chapters 5 and 6: PDF More orbits, and rotating frames.
- Chapters 7 and 8: PDF Lagrangians and small oscillations.
- Chapter 9: PDF Rigid bodies.
- Chapter 10: PDF Hamiltonians.
- Chapter 11: PDF Special Relativity.
Errata
Nothing yet. But it's just a matter of time.