This Short Course of Theoretical Mechanics is designed for students of higher and secondary technical schools. It treats of the basic methods of theoretical mechanics and spheres of their application along with some to-pics which are of such importance todays that no course of mechanics, even a short one, can neglect them altogether. In preparing the original Russian edition for translation the text has be-en substantially revised, with additions, changes and corrections in practi-cally all the chapters. Most of the additions are new sections containing supplementary infor-mation on the motion of a rigid body about a fixed point (the kinematic and dynamic Euler equations) and chapters setting forth the fundamentals of the method of generalized coordinates (the Lagrange equations), since the de-mands to the course of theoretical mechanics in training engineers of diffe-rent specialities makes it necessary to devote some space to this subject even in a short course. Also the book presents an essential minimum on the elementary theory of the gyroscope and such highly relevant topics as motion in gravitational fields (elliptical paths and space flights) and the motion of a body of va-riable mass (rocket motion); a new section discusses weightlessness. The structure of this book is based on the profound conviction, born out by many years of experience, that the best way of presenting study mate-rial, especially when it is contained in a short course, is to proceed from the particular to the general. Accordingly, in this book, plane statics comes be-fore three-dimensional statics, particle dynamics before system dynamics, rectilinear motion before curvilinear motion, etc. Such an arrangement helps the student to understand and digest the material better and faster and the teaching process itself is made more graphic and consistent.

Theoretical Mechanics: A Short Course by S. Targ, Mir Publishers Moscow 1962 PDF

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