Analytical Dynamics - Wikipedia
Analytical Dynamics - Wikipedia
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Some authors (for example, Taylor (2005)[3] and Greenwood (1997)[4]) include special
relativity within classical dynamics.
"kinematics" (dealing with the implications of observed motions without regard for
circumstances causing them).[6]
These three subjects have been connected to dynamics in several ways. One approach
combined statics and kinetics under the name dynamics, which became the branch dealing
with determination of the motion of bodies resulting from the action of specified forces;[7]
another approach separated statics, and combined kinetics and kinematics under the rubric
dynamics.[8][9] This approach is common in engineering books on mechanics, and is still in
widespread use among mechanicians.
Today, dynamics and kinematics continue to be considered the two pillars of classical
mechanics. Dynamics is still included in mechanical, aerospace, and other engineering
curricula because of its importance in machine design, the design of land, sea, air and
space vehicles and other applications. However, few modern physicists concern
themselves with an independent treatment of "dynamics" or "kinematics," nevermind
"statics" or "kinetics." Instead, the entire undifferentiated subject is referred to as classical
mechanics. In fact, many undergraduate and graduate text books since mid-20th century
on "classical mechanics" lack chapters titled "dynamics" or
"kinematics."[3][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17]
In these books, although the word "dynamics" is used
when acceleration is ascribed to a force, the word "kinetics" is never mentioned. However,
clear exceptions exist. Prominent examples include The Feynman Lectures on Physics.[18]
Acceleration
Momentum
Reaction
Hamiltonian mechanics
Canonical transformations
Hamilton–Jacobi Theory
Particle dynamics
Deformation mechanics
Fluid dynamics
Hydrodynamics
Gas dynamics
Aerodynamics
Related subjects
Statics
References
1. Chris Doran; Anthony N. Lasenby (2003). Geometric Algebra for Physicists (https://books.googl
e.com/books?id=VW4yt0WHdjoC&dq=classical+dynamics+-quantum+date:2002-2009&pg=
PA54) . Cambridge University Press. p. 54. ISBN 0-521-48022-1.
6. Edmund Taylor Whittaker (1988). A Treatise on the Analytical Dynamics of Particles and Rigid
Bodies: With an Introduction to the Problem of Three Bodies (https://books.google.com/books?i
d=epH1hCB7N2MC) (Fourth edition of 1936 with foreword by Sir William McCrea ed.).
Cambridge University Press. p. Chapter 1, p. 1. ISBN 0-521-35883-3.
7. James Gordon MacGregor (1887). An Elementary Treatise on Kinematics and Dynamics (http
s://archive.org/details/anelementarytre01macggoog) . Macmillan. p. v. "kinematics
dynamics."
10. David Hestenes (1999). New Foundations for Classical Mechanics (https://books.google.com/b
ooks?id=eU2qm8wavRwC&dq=dynamics+kinematics&pg=PA198) . Springer. p. 198. ISBN 0-
7923-5514-8.
12. Landau, L. D.; Lifshitz, E. M.; Sykes, J.B.; Bell, J. S. (1976). Mechanics (https://books.google.co
m/books?id=LmAV8q_OOOgC) . Vol. 1. Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 978-0-7506-2896-9.
13. Jorge Valenzuela José; Eugene Jerome Saletan (1998). Classical Dynamics: A Contemporary
Approach (https://books.google.com/books?id=ZW0L5Xe9zhwC) . Cambridge University
Press. ISBN 978-0-7506-2896-9.
14. T. W. B. Kibble, Frank H. Berkshire (2004). Classical Mechanics. Imperial College Press.
ISBN 978-1-86094-435-2.
15. Walter Greiner; S. Allan Bromley (2003). Classical Mechanics: Point Particles and Relativity (http
s://archive.org/details/springer_10.1007-b97649) . Springer. ISBN 978-0-387-95586-5.
16. Gerald Jay Sussman; Jack Wisdom Meinhard; Edwin Mayer (2001). Structure and Interpretation
of Classical Mechanics (https://books.google.com/books?id=H_6Ux04cPv8C&q=dynamics) .
MIT Press. ISBN 978-0-262-19455-6.
17. Harald Iro (2002). A Modern Approach to Classical Mechanics (https://books.google.com/book
s?id=-L5ckgdxA5YC) . World Scientific. ISBN 978-981-238-213-9.
18. Feynman, RP; Leighton, RB; Sands, M (2003). The Feynman Lectures on Physics. Vol. 1 (Reprint
of 1963 lectures ed.). Perseus Books Group. p. Ch. 9 Newton's Laws of Dynamics. ISBN 0-
7382-0930-9.
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