Good introductory textbook for L & H dynamics?

[greswd]

I'm a high school grad, my knowledge of college level physics is quite rudimentary. I would like to start learning about L & H dynamics. What textbook would you guys recommend for novices?

 

[dreamLord]

If your knowledge of college level physics is rudimentary, I'd suggest working through a text like Kleppner & Kolenkow first.

 

[Daverz]

You could try this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/046502811X/?tag=pfamazon01-20

Undergraduate Physics students (at least in the U.S.) typically get their first taste of Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics toward the end of a mechanics course in their 3rd year.

 

[greswd]

You could try this book:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/046502811X/?tag=pfamazon01-20

That's a semi-pop, semi-serious kind of book. It's not very common, nice find.

 

[Daverz]

There was also the book Hamiltonian and Lagrangian Mechanics: A Coloring Book for Young Physicists. The author promised a second edition, but I don't know what happened to it.

Some of my favorite mechanics books, in order of sophistication:

French, Newtonian Mechanics
Fowles, Analytical Mechanics
Landau & Lifschitz, Mechanics