books

Below is a list of books that may be useful to the reader. This list is not exhaustive, and does not constitute an endorsement.

Graduate

Goldstein, Herbert (2002). Classical Mechanics. Addison Wesley. ISBN 0-201-65702-3.
Arnold V.I. (1989). Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed. Springer Verlag. ISBN 978-0387968902.
Jorge V. José, Eugene J. Saletan (1998). Classical Dynamics: a contemporary approach. Cambridge Univ.Press. ISBN 978-0521636360.
A.L. Fetter, J.D. Walecka (1980). Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua. McGraw-Hill. ISBN 978-0486432618.
Hanno Rund (1973). The Hamilton-Jacobi theory in the calculus of variations. Krieger Pub. Co.. ISBN 978-0882750637.

Landau, L. D.; Lifshitz, E. M. (1972). Mechanics and Electrodynamics, Vol. 1. Franklin Book Company, Inc. ISBN 0-08-016739-X.
Thornton, Stephen T.; Marion, Jerry B. (2003). Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems (5th ed.). Brooks Cole. ISBN 0-534-40896-6.
Wells, D. A. (1967). Schaum's Outline of Lagrangian Dynamics. New York: McGraw-Hill.
G.R. Fowles, G.L. Cassiday (2005). Analytical mechanics, 7th Edition. Brooks Cole, Belmont CA. ISBN 978-0534408138.
S.T. Thornton, J.B. Marion (1995). Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems. Harcourt. ISBN 978-0030973024.
Tom Kibble, Frank Berkshire (2004). Classical Mechanics (5th Edition). World Scientific Publishing. ISBN 978-1860944352.

Greenwood, Donald T. (1987). Principles of Dynamics, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-709981-9.
K.R. Symon (1971). Mechanics, 3rd. ed.. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 0-201-07392-7.
Claudio Pellegrini, Richard K. Cooper (1999). Modern Analytic Mechanics. Springer. ISBN 978-0306459580.
Tom W B Kibble, Frank H Berkshire (2004). Classical Mechanics (5th Edition). Imperial College Press. ISBN 978-1860944352.
Greenwood, Donald T (1977). Classical Dynamics. Dover Publications Inc.. ISBN 0-486-69690-1.
Gupta, Kiran Chandra (1988). Classical mechanics of particles and rigid bodies. Wiley. ISBN 978-0470209585.