Study Materials

Books:

• Textbooks:

1. Classical Mechanics by Herbert Goldstein, John L. Safko and Charles P. Poole Jr., 3rd Edition, Pearson.
2. The Variational Principles of Mechanics by Cornelius Lanczos (Dover Books on Physics)
3. A Student's Guide to Lagrangians and Hamiltonians by Patrick Hamill (Cambridge Univ. Press)

• Reference Books:

1. Mechanics by L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, 3rd Edition, Butterworth-Heinemann.
2. Mechanics by A. Sommerfeld, Levant Books (2003)
3. Calculus of Variations by M. Gelfand & S. V. Fomin