This volume of lectures, Classical Mechanics: Point Particles and Relativity, deals with the first and more elementary part of the important field of classical mechanics. We have tried to present the subject in a manner that is both interesting to the student and easily accessible. The main text is therefore accompanied by many exercises and examples that have been worked out in great detail. This should make the book useful also for students wishing to study the subject on their own.

Foreword
Preface
Ⅰ VECTOR CALCULUS
1 Introduction and Basic Definitions
2 The Scalar Product
3 Component Representation of a Vector
4 The Vector Product (Axial Vector)
5 The Triple Scalar Product
6 Application of Vector Calculus
7 Differentiation and Integration of Vectors
8 The Moving Trihedral (Accompanying Dreibein)--the Frenet
9 Surfaces in Space
10 Coordinate Frames
11 Vector Differential Operations
12 Determination of Line Integrals
13 The Integral Laws of Gauss and Stokes
14 Calculation of Surface Integrals
15 Volume (Space) Integrals
Ⅱ NEWTONIAN MECHANICS
16 Newton's Axioms
17 Basic Concepts of Mechanics
18 The General Linear Motion
19 The Free Fall
20 Friction
21 The Harmonic Oscillator
22 Mathematical Interlude--Series Expansion, Euler's Formulas
23 The Damped Harmonic Oscillator
24 The Pendulum
25 Mathematical Interlude: Differential Equations
26 Planetary Motions
27 Special Problems in Central Fields
28 The Earth and our Solar System
Ⅲ THEORY OF RELATIVITY
29 Relativity Principle and Michelson-Morley Experiment
30 The Lorentz Transformation
31 Properties of the Lorentz transformation
32 Addition Theorem of the Velocities
33 The Basic Quantities of Mechanics in Minkowski Space
34 Applications of the Special Theory of Relativity
Index