by Darryl D . Holm (Author)
Introduces the tools and language of modern geometric mechanics to advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students. This book treats the dynamics of ray optics, resonant oscillators and the elastic spherical pendulum from a unified geometric viewpoint, by formulating their solutions using reduction by Lie-group symmetries.
Format: Illustrated
Pages: 400
Edition: 2nd Revised edition
Publisher: Imperial College Press
Published: 13 Sep 2011
ISBN 10: 1848167741
ISBN 13: 9781848167742