Kleppner's and french's mechanics, are there any other challenging books?

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The discussion centers on the search for challenging mechanics textbooks comparable to Daniel Kleppner's "An Introduction to Mechanics" and the two-volume MIT series by French. Participants express that these books are among the toughest available, particularly regarding problem difficulty. Irodov's problem book is mentioned as an excellent resource for challenging problems. Kleppner and Kolenkow's book includes answers at the end of the problems, allowing for self-checking. There is a sense of frustration from one participant about not having these books in their library, with a hope to access Kleppner's work through a family member. Overall, the consensus highlights the difficulty and quality of the mentioned texts in the field of mechanics.
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are there other tough Newtonian & relativity mechanics books besides daniel kleppner's intro to mechanics and french's two volumes of mit series?
i mean with respect to the problems.
 
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no other books are as tough as those?
it's really upsetting that i don't have those in my library.
 
You will not, in my humble opinion, find any book better than Kleppner and Kolenkow's "An Introduction To Mechanics."
 
Are there any solutions to problems in the back of these books?
 
Well an excellent problem book is Irodov's :cool:
 
gokugreene said:
Are there any solutions to problems in the back of these books?
Many of the problems in K&K include answers at the end of the problem so it is easy to check your work.
 
your replies are appreciated.
at the moment, my only hope to take a chance to glance at kleppner's book is with my brother.
i hope he could find it, although with my luck he wo'nt.

thanks, anyway.
 

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