Many Perspectives on Swinging
Alberto G. Rojo · Science · 2005
The Pendulum . A Case Study in Physics. By Gregory L. Baker and James A. Blackburn . Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005. 300 pp. $89.50, £45. ISBN 0-19-856754-5. Offering the pendulum as a case study of a physical system, the authors examine it from the perspectives of elementary and advanced classical physics, chaos dynamics, and quantum mechanics.