This book is the result of lectures on 'Classical Mechanics' as the first part of a basic course in Theoretical Physics. These lectures were given by the author to undergraduate students in their second year at the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. The book is also addressed to lecturers in this field and to physicists who want to obtain a new perspective on classical mechanics.

Contents:

• The Foundations of Mechanics
• One-Dimensional Motion of a Particle
• Encountering Peculiar Motion in Two Dimensions
• Motion in a Central Force Field
• The Gravitational Interaction of Two Bodies
• Collisions of Particles. Scattering
• Changing the Frame of Reference
• Lagrangian Mechanics
• Conservation Laws and Symmetries in Many Particle Systems
• The Rigid Body
• Small Oscillations
• Hamilton's Canonical Formulation of Mechanics
• Hamilton–Jacobi Theory
• From Integrable to Non-Integrable Systems

"... this book is a rather complete reference for an undergraduate level, and it achieves its purpose of presenting classical mechanics from the point of view of dynamical systems theory."

“Most interesting is the view on mechanical phenomena which is presented to students and which is aimed to make them cautious on the complex behavior of some (more or less) simple systems ... Ideas from this book are welcomed in every course of classical mechanics, and it is good to have it in any library of universities where mechanics is read.”