Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics
Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (SICM) is a classical mechanics textbook written by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom with Meinhard E. Mayer. The first edition was published by MIT Press in 2001, and a second edition was released in 2015. The book is used at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to teach a class in advanced classical mechanics, starting with Lagrange's equations and proceeding through canonical perturbation theory.
SICM explains some physical phenomena by showing computer programs for simulating them. These programs are written in the Scheme programming language, as were the programs in Sussman's earlier computer science textbook, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs.
Sussman wrote:
The entire text is freely available online from the publisher's website.
Editions
- Sussman, Gerald Jay; Wisdom, Jack; Mayer, Meinhard E. (2001). Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 0262194554. OCLC 45223598.
- Sussman, Gerald Jay; Wisdom, Jack (6 February 2015). Structure and interpretation of classical mechanics (Second ed.). Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262028967. OCLC 905916340.
References
External links
- Publisher page with open access link on publisher site; direct link to HTML from there.
- Full text in HTML (first edition) on co-author Gerald Sussman's site
- OCW MIT OpenCourseWare class materials for course 6.946, Fall 2008.