Classical Mechanics (Kibble and Berkshire)

Classical Mechanics is a well-established textbook written by Thomas Walter Bannerman Kibble and Frank Berkshire of the Imperial College Mathematics Department. The book provides a thorough coverage of the fundamental principles and techniques of classical mechanics, a long-standing subject which is at the base of all of physics.

Publication history
The English language editions were published as follows: The first edition was published by Kibble, as Kibble, T. W. B. Classical Mechanics. London: McGraw–Hill, 1966. 296 p.

The second ed., also just by Kibble, was published in 1973. The 4th, jointly with F H Berkshire, was published in 1996. The 5th, jointly with F H Berkshire, was published in 2004.

The book has been translated into several languages:
 * French, by Michel Le Ray and  Françoise Guérin as Mécanique classique
 * Modern Greek, by Δ. Σαρδελής και Π. Δίτσας, επιμέλεια Γ. Ι. Παπαδόπουλος. Σαρδελής, Δ. Δίτσας, Π as Κλασσική μηχανική
 * German
 * Turkish, by Kemal Çolakoğlu as Klasik mekanik (stok kodu: 9789757477563)
 * Spanish, as Mecánica clásica (ediciones Urmo, Bilbao, january/1987)
 * Portuguese, as Mecânica clássica

Reception
The various editions are held in 1789 libraries. In comparison, the various (2011) editions of Herbert Goldstein's Classical Mechanics are held in 1772 libraries

The original edition was reviewed in Current Science. The fourth edition was reviewed by C. Isenberg in 1997 in the European Journal of Physics, and the fifth edition was reviewed in Contemporary Physics.

Contents (5th edition)

 * Preface
 * Useful Constants and Units
 * Chapter 1: Introduction
 * Chapter 2: Linear motion
 * Chapter 3: Energy and Angular momentum
 * Chapter 4: Central Conservative Forces
 * Chapter 5: Rotating Frames
 * Chapter 6: Potential Theory
 * Chapter 7: The Two-Body Problem
 * Chapter 8: Many-Body Systems
 * Chapter 9: Rigid Bodies
 * Chapter 10: Lagrangian mechanics
 * Chapter 11: Small oscillations and Normal modes
 * Chapter 12: Hamiltonian mechanics
 * Chapter 13: Dynamical systems and their geometry
 * Chapter 14: Order and Chaos in Hamiltonian systems
 * Appendix A: Vectors
 * Appendix B: Conics
 * Appendix C: Phase plane Analysis near Critical Points
 * Appendix D: Discrete Dynamical Systems – Maps
 * Answers to Problems
 * Bibliography
 * Index