Errata for Goldstein Classical Mechanics Second Edition

The line numbers include equation-only lines. Negative line numbers should be counted from the bottom of the page.

Page 2, line -10: The reference to equation 1-1 should be to equation 1-3.

Page 6: The claim that this is a theorem of conservation of energy seems wild, it rather seems to be the definition of the total energy.

Page 8, line -15: The unnumbered equation is missing i subscripts, it should read \[ \mathbf{v'_i}=\frac{d\mathbf{r'_i}}{dt}. \]

Page 8, line -7: \(\mathbf{p'_i}\) is not defined.

Page 8: Goldstein uses vectors very loosely, without explaining what it means to take the cross product of a force and a position, or why it is possible to do arithmetic with positional vectors with different origins.

See also

There is another page of errata for the book by Hoffman and Unseren, versions of which are available in PDF form from various places. They seem to have missed at least the error on page 2.


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