
This book combines the enlarged and corrected editions of both volumes on classical physics stemming from Thirrings famous course. The treatment of classical dynamical systems uses analysis on manifolds to provide the mathematical setting for discussions of Hamiltonian systems,...

I Classical Dynamical Systems.- 1 Introduction.- 1.1 Equations of Motion.- 1.2 The Mathematical Language.- 1.3 The Physical Interpretation.- 2 Analysis on Manifolds.- 2.1 Manifolds.- 2.2 Tangent Spaces.- 2.3 Flows.- 2.4 Tensors.- 2.5 Differentiation.- 2.6 Integrals.- 3 Hamiltonian...

This volume comprises all the material dealing with classical physics of Thirring's famous course in mathematical physics. The treatment of classical dynamical systems uses analysis on manifolds to provide the mathematical setting. The treatment of classical fields uses the language...