Major sources

The textbooks which I have consulted most frequently whilst developing course material are:

Analytical Mechanics, G.R. Fowles (Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, New York NY, 1977).

Solar System Dynamics, C.D. Murray, and S.F. Dermott (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge UK, 1999).

Classical Mechanics, 3rd Edition, H. Goldstein, C. Poole, and J. Safko (Addison-Wesley, San Fransico CA, 2002).

Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, 5th Edition, S.T. Thornton, and J.B. Marion (Brooks/Cole--Thomson Learning, Belmont CA, 2004).

Analytical Mechanics, 7th Edition, G.R. Fowles, and G.L. Cassiday (Brooks/Cole--Thomson Learning, Belmont CA, 2005).