Self Study book for Classical Mechanics?

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I'm looking to find a cheap and short intro to the minimum knowledge of Classical Mechanics(Hamilton/Lagrange formulations) you need to know to understand properly Quantum Mechanics. Any recommendations? I'm not worried about it being too rigorous or in depth since I will take a full class in the subject later on.

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Schaums outline series (Schaum's Outline of Lagrangian Dynamics )
 
Classical Mechanics- Gregory
Classical Mechanics- Kibble (slightly higher level)
http://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/336k/Newton.pdf"
Classical Mechanics-Taylor
Analytical Mechanics- Hand, Finch
http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Advanced_Classical_Mechanics"
 
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Landau ad Lifschitz - very concise

Fetter and Walecka (on mechanics, not their many-body text)

All you need to know is
Poisson brackets in classical mechanics = Commutator in QM
Lagrangian is just principle of least action like for classical optics