Any good books on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics? I got

>>8481046
>Landau and Lifshitz series
That or Susskind's Theoretical Minimum. Alternatively, start with Susskind and then just skim through LL: the former gives a really good overall summary, while the latter goes into some more details.

>>8481046
Foundations Of Mechanics by Ralph Abraham

Goldstein
it's T H I C C
but it's done right

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>>8481199
Goldstein?

>>8481046
Landau and Lifshitz is kind of a meme. You definitely don't want to read that as an introduction, they're graduate level texts

>>8481046
I'm in second year and we use Analytical Mechanics, L.N. Hand and J.D. Finch

>>8481046
David Tong's lectures on classical mechanics are what I used.
Nice and quick and easy to understand.
http://www.damtp.cam.ac.uk/user/tong/dynamics.html

For an introduction to Lagrangian/Hamiltonian mechanics, take a look at Taylor's Classical Mechanics and Susskind's Theoretical Minimum. Susskind's chapter on the symmetries of a physical system is particularly important and underlies much (if not all) of modern day physics.
For more advanced, graduate-level books, you can try Goldstein and, in a different way, Landau/Lifschitz. I found Landau's first chapter particularly lucid. The way he derives the conserved quantities of classical mechanics is quite stunning.