Preface
Chapter 1
Variational Principle and Lagranges Equations
Hamiltons Principle
Some Techniques of Calculus of Variations
Derivation of Lagrange Equations From Hamiltons Principle
Extension of Principle to Non Holonomic Systems
Conservation Theorems and Symmetry Properties
Chapter 2
Legendre Transformations and the Hamilton Equations of Motion
Cyclic Coordinates and Conservation Theorems
Rouths Procedure and Oscillations about Steady Motion
The Hamiltonian Formulation of Relativistic Mechanics
The Principle of Least Action
Chapter 3
The Equations of Canonical Transformation
Examples of Canonical Transformation
The Simplistic Approach to Canonical Transformations
Poisson rcts and Other Canonical Invariants
Chapter 4
Equations of Motion
Infinitesimal Canonical Transformations and Conservation
Theorems in the Poisson rct Formulation
The Angular Momentum
Poisson rct Relations
Symmetry Groups Of Mechanical Systems
Liouvilles Theorem
Chapter 5
Definition of surface
Curves on a surface
Surfaces of revolution
Helicoids
Metric
Direction coefficients
Families of curves
Isometric correspondence
Intrinsic properties
Geodesics
Canonical geodesic equations
Chapter 6
Normal property of geodesics
Existence theorems
Geodesic parallels
Geodesic curvature
Gauss Bonnet theorem
Gaussian curvature
Surfaces of constant curvature
Conformal mapping
Geodesic mapping
Chapter 7