What Lagrangian mechanics textbook should I use?

[jqmhelios]

I am currently taking a course on introductory Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics in year 2 in the UK.
I find the material easy but do not have access to a resource with a satisfying amount of problems.
Despite being (in)directly told this resource is not useful at my level, I have Landau and Lifshitz volume 1 and love it as the explanations are brilliantly clear and understandable to me. However, it contains a disappointingly small amount of problems!

Does anyone know a suitable textbook? For a year 2 physics student with lots of problems and worked examples?

I also should add that I do not like Goldstein's approach to the topic as I find his explanations too difficult for me at this stage. His derivation of the Euler-Lagrange equations was shockingly difficult to follow (unlike Landau's intuitive and easy approach)

 

[Frabjous]

In my day, there was Marion or Symon.

 

[PhDeezNutz]

My introduction to the topic was also Marion & Thornton

 

[apostolosdt]

Schaum’s Outline Series offers down-to-the-point fully answered problems; beware, though, it’s supplemental text only.

 

[George Jones]

As @apostolosdt has said, Schaum's Outline are valuable supplements of problems for standard text.

A text that provides detailed pedagogical explanations of concepts is Classical Mechanics by John Taylor. Some folks liked the detailed explanations; some folks find this text a little too wordy.

 

[Vanadium 50]

If he likes Landau, Taylor is definitely way too wordy.

Landau's One can show" is missing some words. Like "with half a ream of paper and a free afternoon".

 

[vanhees71]

Landau & Lifshitz vol. 1!

 

[andresB]

You can take a look at the first 3 chapters of Classical Dymamics by Donald. T. Greenwoord

 

[MidgetDwarf]

I liked a combination of Taylor and Simon.