Classical Mechanics

Gravity pervades the whole universe; hence buoyancy drives fluids everywhere including those in the atmospheres and interiors of planets and stars....

Nineteenth-Century Energies explores the idea of ‘energy’, a concept central to new directions in interdisciplinary studies today. It examines the ...

Originally published in 1968, this book was one of the first full-scale published studies of the principles of investment planning and of the struc...

This book studies the fundamental concept of hydrodynamics as part of theoretical physics and demonstrates the connection of macroscopic approach w...

The uranium market is a particularly volatile and unpredictable international commodity market. This book, originally published in 1981, analyses t...

Originally published in 1979, this study develops a model that explains the rate of adoption of an innovation in an industry - i.e the impact of te...

Fluid Dynamics via Examples and Solutions provides a substantial set of example problems and detailed model solutions covering various phenomena an...

Predicting Motion presents the core ideas of Newtonian mechanics, starting from Newton's laws and the idea that changes in motion are predictable g...

This book provides a reading of Newton’s argument for universal gravity that is focused on the evidence-based, "experimental" reasoning that Newton...

As the essential companion book to Classical Mechanics and Electrodynamics (World Scientific, 2018), a textbook which aims to provide a general int...

This report arises out of the Working Group set up by The Watt Committee on Energy to examine the issues relating to domestic use and affordable wa...

'The authors deliver a highly readable text which should assure a continued supply of practitioners of classical mechanics and its applications.'Co...

The book comprises a broad panorama of phenomena occurring in four major classes of radiophysical and mechanical systems — linear, nonlinear, param...

This important book provides an introduction to the liquid state. A qualitative description of liquid properties is first given, followed by detail...

The material for these volumes has been selected from the past twenty years' examination questions for graduate students at the University of Calif...

Percussion instruments may be our oldest musical instruments, but only recently have they become the subject of extensive scientific study. This bo...

This book contains the exercises from the classical mechanics text Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics, together with their complete solutions. It...

This volume is an outgrowth of the Third International Symposium on Hamiltonian Systems and Celestial Mechanics. The main topics are Arnold diffusi...

This book is a self-contained introduction to the theory of periodic, progressive, permanent waves on the surface of incompressible inviscid fluid....

Quantum liquids in confined geometries exhibit a large variety of new and interesting phenomena. For example, the internal structure of the liquid ...

The 1952 Nobel physics laureate Felix Bloch (1905-83) was one of the titans of twentieth-century physics. He laid the fundamentals for the theory o...

Many textbooks on continuum mechanics plunge students in at the ‘deep end’ of three-dimensional analysis and applications. However a striking numbe...

Compiled by an international array of musical and technical specialists, this book deals with some of the most important topics in modern musical s...