LAGRANGIAN AND HAMILTONIAN MECHANICS: SOLUTIONS TO THE EXERCISES

This relatively small book on classical theoretical mechanics is a collection of exercises, or problems, with their solutions. All the exercises to be found in Calkin's textbook Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics, except the last one, are contained herein. Naturally, it is meant to be used in conjunction with the aforementioned textbook, though I think this not absolutely necessary (though it may help with issues pertaining to, say, terminology). Indeed, my use of this book is primarily as a set of exercises to supplement H. Goldstein's famous text, and to a lesser extent, that of J.R. Taylor - I do not own Calkin's text. I recommend this book for what it is, but be aware that it contains no problems on either rigid bodies or special relativity. Anyhow, as problems WITH SOLUTIONS (and, by the way, the solutions given in this book are, I think most will agree, sufficiently complete) are almost essential to independent students, I recommend this to such people (as does the author himself, in the preface).

The book is nice, not cheap, and very useful. The enunciation of each exercise comes in the book. You can use this book without the text book in hands. High ponctuation.

Excellent book to compliment Goldstein which suffers from too few worked out examples.

The solutions provided here are both clear and thorough. And they present some handy tricks and techniques.I highly recommend this book for anyone studying Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Mechanics, particularly if they are using it for self study.My only complaint was that in the main text, the exercise set for chapter 3 begins by instructing the reader to repeat a number of the exercises from chapter 2 using the new methods presented in the current chapter. I found this extremely worthwhile, but was disappointed to see that the chapter 3 style solutions for these problems were not included in this book.Otherwise, excellent.

Solutions to exercises, not the textbook itself. Way too expensive.