An Introduction to Mechanics


An Introduction to Mechanics, commonly referred to as Kleppner and Kolenkow, is an undergraduate-level textbook on classical mechanics written by physicists Daniel Kleppner and Robert J. Kolenkow. It originated as the textbook for a one-semester mechanics course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where both Kleppner and Kolenkow taught, intended to go deeper than an ordinary first-year course.
The first edition was published in 1973 by McGraw Hill and republished in 2010 by Cambridge University Press, which also published the second edition in 2013.

Table of contents (2nd edition)

Reception

The first edition of the book was criticized for sexism in the exercises, though this was improved in the second edition.