Monday, July 31, 2017

hamiltonian formalism - Book about classical mechanics



I am looking for a book about "advanced" classical mechanics. By advanced I mean a book considering directly Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation, and also providing a firm basis in the geometrical consideration related to these to formalism (like tangent bundle, cotangent bundle, 1-form, 2-form, etc.).


I have this book from Saletan and Jose, but I would like to go into more details about the [symplectic] geometrical and mathematical foundations of classical mechanics.



Additional note: A chapter about relativistic Hamiltonian dynamics would be a good thing.



Answer



Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (table of contents) certainly deserves mention. It might not have as much differential geometry as you'd like, though they have a followup article titled Functional Differential Geometry.


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