Classical Mechanics
by Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole, John Safko, Herbert Goldstein, Charles P. Poole, John L. Safko · first published 1951
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I highly recommend Classical Mechanics by Goldstein et al. http://www.abebooks.com/9780201657029/Classical-Mechanics-Go...
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on “Ask HN: What books are you reading right now?” ↗It's been a decade, so I don't have any of the actual tests anymore. But the class used Marion and Thornton's Classical Mechanics[0] and occasionally pulled from Goldstein's book[1]. It was an undergrad class, so we only pulled from the second in the Classical II class. For these very tough physics (and math) problems usually the…
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