How long does it take to read Classical Mechanics?
John R. Taylor
Classical Mechanics by John R. Taylor takes about 12 hours 41 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 12 hours 41 minutes
A week or two of reading
First published 2005. 692 pages, about 190,300 words.
26 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 21 hours 9 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 12 hours 41 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 7 hours 56 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
"Classical Mechanics is intended for students who have studied some mechanics in an introductory physics course, such as "freshman physics." ...the book covers most of the topics normally found in books at this level, including conservation laws, oscillations, Lagrangian mechanics, two-body problems, non-inertial frames, rigid bodies, normal modes, chaos theory, Hamiltonian mechanics, and continuum mechanics. A particular highlight is the chapter on chaos, which focuses on a few simple systems, to give a truly comprehensible introduction to the concepts that we hear so much about. At the end of each chapter is a large selection of interesting problems for the student, 744 in all, classified by topic and approximate difficulty, and ranging for simple exercises to challenging computer projects." -- Publisher's description.
Subjects: Mechanics, Mécanique, Cs.physc.collg, Cs.physc.mech
