Table of Contents

Preface. Significant Names in Mechanics and Mathematical Physics 1. Basic Principles 2. Accelerated Coordinate Systems 3. Lagrangian Dynamics 4. Small Oscillations 5. Rigid Bodies 6. Hamiltonian Dynamics 7. Strings 8. Membranes 9. Sound Waves in Fluids 10. Surface Waves on Fluids 11. Heat Conduction 12. Viscous Fluids 13. Elastic Continua Appendixes. Index