This book serves as a textbook for an analytical mechanics course, a fundamental subject of physics, that pays special attention to important topics that are not discussed in most standard textbooks.
Dr. José R. Mohallem has served as a professor of physics at the Federal University of Minas Gerais in Belo Horizonte, Brazil since 1981. He has decades of experience teaching classical and quantum mechanics and has research expertise in atomic and molecular physics. Since 1988, he has been a research fellow for the Conselho Nacional de Pesquisas Científicas e Tecnológicas (CNPq). Previously, he has also served as an invited senior researcher at Queen's University (Belfast, UK), visiting professor at the University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne (Reims, France), and a director of research at the French National Center for Scientific Research (Paris, France).