M. Planck. Einführung in die allgemeine Mechanik

pp. 226, Second edition. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1920.

Despite the enormous number of textbooks on mechanics, Planck’s textbook is of undoubted interest to the Russian reading public, touching chiefly upon those questions that are closest ...

concern physics. In 224 pages Planck sets forth the mechanics of the point and of systems, dwelling in considerable detail on Lagrange’s equations and Hamilton’s principle, which have acquired such great importance in contemporary theoretical physics.

With the brevity of the textbook and the clarity of the exposition of the subject, Planck’s book can conveniently serve as a manual both for university lectures and for the independent study of the subject.

P. Lazarev.