TY - BOOK AU - Talpaert,Yves TI - Mechanics in Differential Geometry SN - 9783110917796 AV - QA641 -- .T216 2006eb U1 - 516.36 PY - 2006/// CY - Berlin/Boston PB - De Gruyter, Inc. KW - Geometry, Differential KW - Mechanics KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- CHAPTER Ο. INTRODUCTION TO TENSORS -- 1. WELL KNOWN CONCEPTS -- 2. OPERATIONS ON TENSORS -- CHAPTER 1. FOUNDATIONS OF DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY -- 1. MANIFOLDS -- 2. TANGENT VECTOR SPACE -- 3. TANGENT BUNDLE, VECTOR FIELD, AND LIE ALGEBRA -- 4. COTANGENT BUNDLE AND COVECTOR FIELDS -- 5. TENSOR ALGEBRA AND TENSOR FIEDS -- 6. EXTERIOR DIFFERENTIAL FORMS -- 7. LIE DERIVATIVE, LIE GROUP, AND LIE ALGEBRA -- 8. INTEGRATION OF FORMS -- 9. RIEMANNIAN GEOMETRY -- EXERCISES -- CHAPTER 2. SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY -- 1. PRELIMINARIES -- 2. SYMPLECTIC GEOMETRY -- CHAPTER 3. A MODERN EXPOSITION OF MECHANICS -- 1. LAGRANGIAN MECHANICS -- 2. HAMILTONIAN MECHANICS -- 3. COMPARISON OF THE LAGRANGIAN AND HAMILTONIAN FORMULATIONS -- 4. HAMILTON-JACOBI MECHANICS -- 5. INTRODUCTION TO PERTURBATIONS -- EXERCISES -- CHAPTER 4. THE N-BODY PROBLEM -- AN ORIGINAL METHOD FOR LARGE Ν -- 1. N-BODY PROBLEM, EQUATIONS AND INTEGRALS -- 2. THE N-BODY PROBLEM IN STATISTICAL MECHANICS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- GLOSSARY OF SYMBOLS -- INDEX N2 - No detailed description available for "Mechanics in Differential Geometry" UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=4002423 ER -