Lectures on Classical Mechanics
by John C. Baez
Publisher: University of California 2005
Number of pages: 76
Description:
These are course notes for a mathematics graduate course on classical mechanics. The author started with the Lagrangian approach, with a heavy emphasis on action principles, and derived the Hamiltonian approach from that.
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