| Italic Title: | force |
| An Introduction to Mechanics | |
| Author: | Daniel Kleppner Robert J. Kolenkow |
| Country: | United States United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
| Subject: | Classical mechanics |
| Genre: | Non-fiction |
| Publisher: | McGraw Hill Cambridge University Press |
| Pub Date: | 1973, 2010, 2013 |
| Pages: | 542[1] |
| Isbn: | 9780521198219 |
| Oclc: | 1059566786 |
An Introduction to Mechanics, commonly referred to as Kleppner and Kolenkow, is an undergraduate level textbook on classical mechanics coauthored 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.[2] Since its introduction, it has expanded its reach to other universities to become one of the most popular mechanics textbooks.
The first edition was published in 1973 by McGraw Hill and republished in 2010 by Cambridge University.[3] The second edition was published in 2013 by Cambridge.
The first edition of the book was criticized for sexism in the exercises, though this was improved in the second edition.[4]