I found this one of the most useful books I've read, but less so for the physics (which was mostly an intellectual curiosity), and more so for understanding how to write good code.
In it, Sussman shows you how to:
* Write a Lagrangian
* Symbolically convert it into Lagrange's Equations
* Compile those into native code
* Numerically integrate the with an optimized numerical algorithm to get a path of motion.
And all of this, with beautiful, clean, concise, simple code.
In it, Sussman shows you how to:
* Write a Lagrangian
* Symbolically convert it into Lagrange's Equations
* Compile those into native code
* Numerically integrate the with an optimized numerical algorithm to get a path of motion.
And all of this, with beautiful, clean, concise, simple code.
A-fing-mazing.