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'''''Mechanik''''', the first volume of Sommerfeld's ''Vorlesungen über Theoretische Physik'', was published in 1947 by Akademische Verlagegesellschaft Becker und Erler and subsequently translated into English by [[Martin O. Stern]] and published as '''''Mechanics''''' in 1953 by the [[Academic Press]]. [[Paul Peter Ewald]] wrote a foreword for the English edition where he attempts to summarize Sommerfeld's lecture style and use the information to explain why Sommerfeld had so many successful students.<ref name=Lindsay />
The book was reviewed by [[Robert Bruce Lindsay]],<ref name="Lindsay">{{Cite journal|last=Lindsay|first=R. B.|author-link=Robert Bruce Lindsay|date=February 1954|title=Mechanics. Lectures on Theoretical Physics, Volume I|url=http://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/1.3061512|journal=Physics Today|language=en|volume=7|issue=2|pages=18–19|doi=10.1063/1.3061512|bibcode=1954PhT.....7b..18S|issn=0031-9228}}</ref> [[Rudolf Peierls]],<ref name="PeierlsMulti" /><ref name="PeierlsOne">{{Cite journal|last=Peierls|first=R. E.|author-link=Rudolf Peierls|date=May 1954|title=[Short Reviews]|url=https://www.nature.com/articles/173932d0|journal=Nature|language=en|volume=173|issue=4411|pages=932|doi=10.1038/173932d0|bibcode=1954Natur.173..932P|s2cid=39003607|issn=1476-4687|doi-access=free}}</ref> [[William V. Houston]],<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Houston|first=W. V.|author-link=William V. Houston|date=May 1953|title=Mechanics, Lectures on Theoretical Physics|url=http://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.1933476|journal=American Journal of Physics|language=en|volume=21|issue=5|pages=399|doi=10.1119/1.1933476|bibcode=1953AmJPh..21..399S|issn=0002-9505}}</ref> and several others.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Byers|first=A. C.|date=April 1953|title=Mechanics. Lectures on theoretical physics, Volume I|url=https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0016003253904116|journal=Journal of the Franklin Institute|language=en|volume=255|issue=4|pages=354–355|doi=10.1016/0016-0032(53)90411-6}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Leggett|first=D. M. A.|date=1953|title=Review of Mechanics. Lectures on Theoretical Physics, Vol. 1|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43415023|journal=Science Progress (1933- )|volume=41|issue=163|pages=515–516|jstor=43415023|issn=0036-8504}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Prager|first=W.|date=1953|title=Review of Mechanics|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/43634072|journal=Quarterly of Applied Mathematics|volume=11|issue=3|pages=373|jstor=43634072|issn=0033-569X}}</ref> In his 1954 review of the volume, Lindsay wrote that Sommerfeld's "clarity is indeed remarkably well exemplified" by the mechanics textbook and he praised the book for its "many ingenious comments to help the learner over the rough spots".<ref name="Lindsay" /> Lindsay noted regret for the lack of an extended discussion of mass and force in physics before going on to write that the "book can be heartily recommended to all students of physics on the undergraduate senior and elementary graduate levels in American universities".<ref name="Lindsay" />
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