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Where can I find a good introduction to Lagrangian mechanics?


Any undergraduate classical mechanics text book such as this one should cover it: http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Dynamics-Particles-Systems-T...


I highly recommend Classical Mechanics by Goldstein et al.

http://www.abebooks.com/9780201657029/Classical-Mechanics-Go...


I love how everyone has their favorite Classical Mechanics text and how they are almost all very different, though Goldstein and Marion almost always top the lists.

I learned from a less established text by Taylor: http://www.amazon.com/Classical-Mechanics-John-R-Taylor/dp/1...

Looks unavailable, but a PDF is very clearly the second result on Google for "Classical Mechanics Taylor" so it may be a good option for the tight budget :)


Landau and Lifshitz's Classical Mechanics - dense, high level, the classic text.


We used a combination of Goldstein (a classic as another poster pointed out) and Marion & Thornton's Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems (which was good but not great).


College.




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