Nonlinear Mechanics

Nonlinear MechanicsIn their prior Dover book, Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua, Alexander L. Fetter and John Dirk Walecka provided a lucid and self contained account of classical mechanics, together with appropriate mathematical methods. This supplementan update of that volumeoffers a bridge to contemporary mechanics. The original book's focus on continuum mechanicswith chapters on sound waves in fluids, surface waves on fluids, heat conduction, and

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