--- product_id: 135272113 title: "No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics: A Student-Friendly Introduction" price: "FREE" currency: VND in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.vn/products/135272113-no-nonsense-classical-mechanics-a-student-friendly-introduction store_origin: VN region: Vietnam --- # No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics: A Student-Friendly Introduction **Price:** FREE **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics: A Student-Friendly Introduction - **How much does it cost?** FREE with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.vn](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/135272113-no-nonsense-classical-mechanics-a-student-friendly-introduction) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Learning classical mechanics doesn’t have to be hard What if there was a way to learn classical mechanics without all the usual fluff? What if there were a book that allowed you to see the whole picture and not just tiny parts of it? Thoughts like this are the reason that No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics now exists. What will you learn from this book? Get to know all fundamental mechanics concepts — Grasp why we can describe classical mechanics using the Lagrangian formalism, the Newtonian formalism, or the Hamiltonian formalism and how these frameworks are connected. Learn to describe classical mechanics mathematically — Understand the meaning and origin of the most important equations: Newton's second law, the Euler-Lagrange equation and Hamilton's equations. Master the most important classical mechanics systems — Read fully annotated, step-by-step calculations and understand the general algorithm we use to describe them. Get an understanding you can be proud of — Learn about beautiful and deep insights like Noether's theorem or Liouville's theorem and how classical mechanics emerges in a proper limit of special relativity, quantum mechanics and general relativity. No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics is the most student-friendly book on classical nechanics ever written. Here’s why. First of all, it's nothing like a formal university lecture. Instead, it’s like a casual conservation with a more experienced student. This also means that nothing is assumed to be “obvious” or “easy to see”. Each chapter, each section, and each page focuses solely on the goal to help you understand. Nothing is introduced without a thorough motivation and it is always clear where each equation comes from. The book contains no fluff since unnecessary content quickly leads to confusion. Instead, it ruthlessly focuses on the fundamentals and makes sure you’ll understand them in detail. The primary focus on the readers’ needs is also visible in dozens of small features that you won’t find in any other textbook In total, the book contains more than 100 illustrations that help you understand the most important concepts visually. In each chapter, you’ll find fully annotated equations and calculations are done carefully step-by-step. This makes it much easier to understand what’s going on. Whenever a concept is used that was already introduced previously there is a short sidenote that reminds you where it was first introduced and often recites the main points. In addition, there are summaries at the beginning of each chapter that make sure you won’t get lost. Review: A Great Book - I am writing this review after reading this book and the Quantum Mechanics book from cover to cover. I wanted to write a review after reading all the No-Nonsense series books from cover to cover. But I noticed that my opinion of this series will not change by further reading. They say about a novel that it should move your heart, stimulate your mind, and touch your soul. Otherwise it is not a novel. Very unfortunately, we have long forgotten that this lesson should also apply to physics (and other science) books. The No-Nonsense Series gives a rap on the knuckles of graduate text book writers to wake up to this age-old dictum. Every page of the two books in this series I read from cover to cover stimulated my heart, mind, and soul. Why? Because on every page I saw not only equations but, more importantly, connections between various perspectives, aspects, and even fields of physics. I cannot say anything more because the rest is details which more learned people than me have already expressed. Since a few years I am noticing a trend in physics books where a new breed of Young Turks are appearing on the horizon of science, like Huns on the horizons of Rome, and telling the academic establishment that if you cannot deliver good stuff then we will. Most of these Young Turks are unknown, and have no influence or positions in the academic world, like the writer of the book reviewed. To me this is a great paradigm shift which will in the long run bring Nobel Prizes in Physics to outsiders who have nothing to do with the academic world. "Outside writers" today, "Outside Nobel Prize Winners tomorrow" - this seems to be the paradigm shift, at least to me. Review: Finally, a physics textbook that doesn't lose the forest for the trees - Jakob Schwichtenberg's No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics is transforming my efforts to learn physics at a college level. I am a retired high school math teacher and I've been trying to use Maple computer algebra software and various books to teach myself classical physics, and hopefully, quantum mechanics and relativity eventually. I have some good books--Wolfson and Pasachoff's Physics, Frank Wang's Physics with Maple, Susskind's The Theoretical Minimum, and Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary Boas. But it just wasn't coming together for me until I started reading Schwichtenberg's book. Wolfson's Newtonian textbook is a very accessible reference work, but way too detailed for my needs. Susskind's book is the kind of thing I've been looking for, but he presupposes too much prior knowledge and doesn't build up the presentation in the truly student-friendly way that Schwichtenberg does. Wang's book gives you the tools to learn physics using Maple, but also presupposes way more than any undergraduate level student knows. Boas' book is also an accessible reference work, but do you really need to know ordinary differential equations before you learn the calculus of variations? For me, it's challenging enough just to learn multivariate calculus. With Schwichtenberg's book, I'm off and running now and can use Maple and these other books selectively to go into greater depth on select topics and solve exercises without losing the forest for the trees. Thank you, Jakob Schwichtenberg! ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #870,100 in Kindle Store ( See Top 100 in Kindle Store ) #88 in Mechanics Physics #164 in Physics of Mechanics | ## Images ![No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics: A Student-Friendly Introduction - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71AEGWiqWIL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Great Book *by R***N on September 5, 2020* I am writing this review after reading this book and the Quantum Mechanics book from cover to cover. I wanted to write a review after reading all the No-Nonsense series books from cover to cover. But I noticed that my opinion of this series will not change by further reading. They say about a novel that it should move your heart, stimulate your mind, and touch your soul. Otherwise it is not a novel. Very unfortunately, we have long forgotten that this lesson should also apply to physics (and other science) books. The No-Nonsense Series gives a rap on the knuckles of graduate text book writers to wake up to this age-old dictum. Every page of the two books in this series I read from cover to cover stimulated my heart, mind, and soul. Why? Because on every page I saw not only equations but, more importantly, connections between various perspectives, aspects, and even fields of physics. I cannot say anything more because the rest is details which more learned people than me have already expressed. Since a few years I am noticing a trend in physics books where a new breed of Young Turks are appearing on the horizon of science, like Huns on the horizons of Rome, and telling the academic establishment that if you cannot deliver good stuff then we will. Most of these Young Turks are unknown, and have no influence or positions in the academic world, like the writer of the book reviewed. To me this is a great paradigm shift which will in the long run bring Nobel Prizes in Physics to outsiders who have nothing to do with the academic world. "Outside writers" today, "Outside Nobel Prize Winners tomorrow" - this seems to be the paradigm shift, at least to me. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Finally, a physics textbook that doesn't lose the forest for the trees *by B***. on September 26, 2022* Jakob Schwichtenberg's No-Nonsense Classical Mechanics is transforming my efforts to learn physics at a college level. I am a retired high school math teacher and I've been trying to use Maple computer algebra software and various books to teach myself classical physics, and hopefully, quantum mechanics and relativity eventually. I have some good books--Wolfson and Pasachoff's Physics, Frank Wang's Physics with Maple, Susskind's The Theoretical Minimum, and Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences by Mary Boas. But it just wasn't coming together for me until I started reading Schwichtenberg's book. Wolfson's Newtonian textbook is a very accessible reference work, but way too detailed for my needs. Susskind's book is the kind of thing I've been looking for, but he presupposes too much prior knowledge and doesn't build up the presentation in the truly student-friendly way that Schwichtenberg does. Wang's book gives you the tools to learn physics using Maple, but also presupposes way more than any undergraduate level student knows. Boas' book is also an accessible reference work, but do you really need to know ordinary differential equations before you learn the calculus of variations? For me, it's challenging enough just to learn multivariate calculus. With Schwichtenberg's book, I'm off and running now and can use Maple and these other books selectively to go into greater depth on select topics and solve exercises without losing the forest for the trees. Thank you, Jakob Schwichtenberg! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great introduction to classical mechanics! *by E***R on March 23, 2020* This book does a great job at explaining classical mechanics to beginners. The author remembers the challenges he encountered when learning the subject and thus is in an ideal position to teach beginners. His style is engaging and enthusiastic; the book almost reads like a novel! Compared to Susskind’s “The Theoretical Minimum” (Vol. 1 on classical mechanics), another great book, Schwichtenberg’s book goes further and into more details. Even if you have read and understood the TTM books, I recommend reading this book. In particular chapter 7 (on point transformations, gauge transformations, and canonical transformations), chapter 11 (on Hamilton-Jacobi mechanics, statistical mechanics, and Koopman-von Neumann mechanics), and chapter 12 (on the origins of classical mechanics) provide valuable additional information. I also have the author’s earlier book “Physics from Symmetry”. Compared to PfS, this book is much easier to read. The explanations are more detailed, step-by-step, and sometimes multiple perspectives are presented. --- ## Why Shop on Desertcart? - 🛒 **Trusted by 1.3+ Million Shoppers** — Serving international shoppers since 2016 - 🌍 **Shop Globally** — Access 737+ million products across 21 categories - 💰 **No Hidden Fees** — All customs, duties, and taxes included in the price - 🔄 **15-Day Free Returns** — Hassle-free returns (30 days for PRO members) - 🔒 **Secure Payments** — Trusted payment options with buyer protection - ⭐ **TrustPilot Rated 4.5/5** — Based on 8,000+ happy customer reviews **Shop now:** [https://www.desertcart.vn/products/135272113-no-nonsense-classical-mechanics-a-student-friendly-introduction](https://www.desertcart.vn/products/135272113-no-nonsense-classical-mechanics-a-student-friendly-introduction) --- *Product available on Desertcart Vietnam* *Store origin: VN* *Last updated: 2026-09-22*