经典力学：点粒子和相对论（英文版）

This volume of lectures, Classical Mechanics: Point Particles and Relativity, deals with the first and more elementary part of the important field of classical mechanics. We have tried to present the subject in a manner that is both interesting to the student and easily accessible. The main text is therefore accompanied by many exercises and examples that have been worked out in great detail. This should make the book useful also for students wishing to study the subject on their own.

这是一套由德国著名理论物理学家W．Griner教授编著的13卷集的理论物理学教科书。是一套内容完整的非常实用的从大学生到硕士研究生的现代物理学教材。它以系统的、统一的、连贯的方式阐述了现代理论物理学的诸方面。这套教材面世后，不仅在德国产生了
巨大的影响，其英文版的及时推出，对全世界理论物理学的教学也起了很好的促进作用。
本套教材的特点是：①取材新颖。作者十分重视最新实验数据对理论物理学概念发展和深化的重要作用，不断引人大量新的材料扩充其内容。②内容叙述简明、清晰、易懂，数学推导详尽。③每卷中都输入了数以百计的例题和习题，并均给出了详细的解答。这在当前理物理学的大量出版物中是极为难得的，它能帮助和辅导学生把理论物理学的概念与方法应用于解决物理学家感兴趣的实验问题。④书中每章后附有与本章内容有关的科学家传略。这套风格风格一致、符号统一、前后连贯、内容全面的教材，不仅对理论物理专业的大学生、教师、研究生及研究人员是难得的好书，对广大爱好理论物理学的各方面人士也有很好的参考价值。
本书为全英文版。

Foreword
Preface
Ⅰ VECTOR CALCULUS
　1 Introduction and Basic Definitions
　2 The Scalar Product
　3 Component Representation of a Vector
　4 The Vector Product (Axial Vector)
　5 The Triple Scalar Product
　6 Application of Vector Calculus
　7 Differentiation and Integration of Vectors
　8 The Moving Trihedral (Accompanying Dreibein)--the Frenet
　9 Surfaces in Space
　10 Coordinate Frames
　11 Vector Differential Operations
　12 Determination of Line Integrals
　13 The Integral Laws of Gauss and Stokes
　14 Calculation of Surface Integrals
　15 Volume (Space) Integrals
Ⅱ NEWTONIAN MECHANICS
　16 Newton's Axioms
　17 Basic Concepts of Mechanics
　18 The General Linear Motion
　19 The Free Fall
　20 Friction
　21 The Harmonic Oscillator
　22 Mathematical Interlude--Series Expansion, Euler's Formulas
　23 The Damped Harmonic Oscillator
　24 The Pendulum
　25 Mathematical Interlude: Differential Equations
　26 Planetary Motions
　27 Special Problems in Central Fields
　28 The Earth and our Solar System
Ⅲ THEORY OF RELATIVITY
　29 Relativity Principle and Michelson-Morley Experiment
　30 The Lorentz Transformation
　31 Properties of the Lorentz transformation
　32 Addition Theorem of the Velocities
　33 The Basic Quantities of Mechanics in Minkowski Space
　34 Applications of the Special Theory of Relativity
Index