Classical mechanics online

Lecture notes

• David Tong, Lectures on Classical Dynamics, University of Cambridge, 2015

• James Nearing, Classical Mechanics, University of Miami, 2013

• Richard Fitzpatrick, Newtonian Dynamics, University of Texas at Austin, 2011

• Iain Stewart, MIT Classical mechanics III, MIT 8.09, 2014

    Lecture notes 2016

• Matthew Evans, MIT Classical mechanics II, MIT 8.223, 2017

• Peter Dourmashkin, MIT Classical mechanics I, MIT 8.01, 2016

    Lecture notes 2017

• Michael Fowler, Graduate Classical Mechanics, University of Virginia, 2015

  "In the present lectures, we provide fuller explanations [of the subject covered in Landau and Lifshitz Mechanics] to make the material (we hope) easier to follow on a first reading"

• Martin Cederwall, Per Salomonson, An introduction to analytical mechanics, Chalmers University of Technology, 2010

• Sunil Golwala, Lecture Notes on Classical Mechanics, Caltech, 2007

• H. Georgi, Mechanics and Special Relativity, Harvard University

  "Newtonian mechanics and special relativity for students with good preparation in physics and mathematics ... Topics include oscillators damped and driven and resonance ... an introduction to Lagrangian mechanics and optimization, symmetries and Noether's theorem, special relativity, collisions and scattering, rotational motion, angular momentum, torque, the moment of inertia tensor, gravitation, planetary motion and a little glimpse of quantum mechanics"

• K. Likharev, Essential Graduate Physics, Stony Brook University, 2013-2020

• Daniel Arovas, Lecture Notes on Classical Mechanics, University of California, San Diego, 2022

Books

• L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz, Mechanics, Butterworth-Heinemann, 1976

• E. T. Whittaker, A treatise on the analytical dynamics of particles and rigid bodies, Cambridge University Press, 1917

• Douglas Cline, Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics, University of Rochester, 2018