Elements of Classical Point Mechanics: Volume I: Dirac’s Theory of Constraints [Print Replica] Kindle Edition

This book is the first of a three-volume series on classical mechanical point-particle systems. It covers Dirac’s theory of constraints, and it is the most self-contained and in-detail presentation of this topic currently available.The other two volumes, which will be available soon, use the Dirac’s theory of constraints to cover holonomic and non-holonomic systems of constraints as well as a problem of creating Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formalisms for variety of mechanical systems.Only introductory knowledge of basic classical mechanics is assumed from the reader, making the book accessible to higher-level undergraduate and graduate students of theoretical physics and mathematics. Read more