I just got the new book "“Classical Mechanics with Mathematica”, 2nd ed, by Romano and Marasco. The preface refers to available Mathematica notebooks, the cover includes a box “EXTRAS ONLINE”.
Where are those notebooks found?
So far as I can see, there is no indication in the books’ preface, colophon, etc., as to the notenooks’ loccation. And the page for the book at the publisher’s website, Client Challenge, seems to have no link whatsoever to such notebooks. (The “Downloads” link there has as target an external site giving metrics on downloads of the ebook and individual chapters of it.)
In face, as I have begun to read the book, I have not yet found any mention of Mathematica, not even in exercises in the “Mechanics” part of the book, where the preface alleges that exercises using Mathematica may be found.
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I didn’t see the link anywhere, so I tried to compose the URL on my own.
The URL follows a simple string pattern, you just need to know the year and the ISBN number
The Wolfram Books webpage hasn’t listed it but the new 2020CRC Press book “Classical Mechanics … Using Mathematica” is available yet. I had a peek and it is what i’d want such a text to be. Decent work, integrating well Mathematica code snippets and mechanics as taught in first courses (physics, engineering dynamics), with plenty of helpful illustrations. I like it much better than the Romano Marasco which in the end has very little to do with Mathematica imho (Springer marketing trick?).
Hopefully the Wolfram Books webpage updates their catalog with this relevant title.
True true, over the top (and I wouldn’t understand). They are generous to first-time adopters though, with complimentary inspection copies for university instructors or assistants. One asks, one gets.
The problem sets at the end of chapters look decent\computable. Maybe the big plus for the book, as long as one has got the solutions too.