An Introduction to Mechanics

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An Introduction to Mechanics
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Cover of the second edition
Author Daniel Kleppner
Robert J. Kolenkow
LanguageEnglish
Subject Classical mechanics
GenreNon-fiction
Publisher McGraw Hill
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
1973, 2010, 2013
Publication placeUnited States
United Kingdom
Pages542 [1]
ISBN 9780521198219
OCLC 1059566786

An Introduction to Mechanics, commonly referred to as Kleppner and Kolenkow, is an undergraduate-level textbook on classical mechanics written by physicists Daniel Kleppner and Robert J. Kolenkow. It originated as the textbook for a one-semester mechanics course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where both Kleppner and Kolenkow taught, intended to go deeper than an ordinary first-year course. [2]

Contents

The first edition was published in 1973 by McGraw Hill and republished in 2010 by Cambridge University Press (CUP), [3] which also published the second edition in 2013.

Table of contents (2nd edition)

Reception

The first edition of the book was criticized for sexism in the exercises, though this was improved in the second edition. [4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "An Introduction to Mechanics". WorldCat.
  2. ↑ Kleppner, Daniel; Kolenkow, Robert (1973). An Introduction to Mechanics. Cambridge University Press. p. xi.
  3. ↑ Kleppner, Daniel; Kolenkow, Robert J. (May 6, 2010). An Introduction to Mechanics. Cambridge University Press. ISBN   978-0-521-19821-9.
  4. ↑ Shorter, Richard (August 14, 2014). "An Introduction to Mechanics (2nd Edition), by Daniel Kleppner and Robert Kolenkow" . Contemporary Physics. 55 (4): 359. doi:10.1080/00107514.2014.948931 . Retrieved July 25, 2024.


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