The manual offers around two hundred years of Mechanics, to
be performed using the Lagrangian and the Hamiltonian formalism. The first
includes exercises on constrained discrete systems (in a fixed or mobile way)
to be studied qualitatively in the case of one and two degrees of freedom, some
exercises on the motion in a central field and on the rigid bodies. Within the
Hamiltonian frame exercises involving the main formal notions (Hamiltonian
systems, canonical transformations, generating functions, Hamilton-Jacobi
equation) are listed. Some exercises of Statistical Mechanics close the
collection. Each exercise is coupled with a trace of the resolution. A brief
introduction to each section collects the main theoretical concepts in order to
deal with the exercises.
Federico Talamucci svolge attività didattica e di ricerca presso il DiMaI, Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze. Dal 2000 è impegnato, per lezioni ed esercitazioni, negli insegnamenti di Meccanica per i corsi di laurea triennali e magistrali della Scuola di Scienze Matematiche, Fisiche e Naturali.
Federico Talamucci carries out teaching and research at the Dimai, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of Florence. Since 2000 he is engaged, for lectures and exercises, in the teachings of Mechanics to undergraduate and postgraduate courses of the School of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences.