Classical Mechanics

Fall 2024

Details

Credit

4

Mode

In Person

Component

Lecture

Meets

In Person -

Instructors

Shuang Zhou

Description

Advanced course in undergraduate classical mechanics covering Newtonian dynamics and analytic methods. Topics include: conservation laws, oscillatory phenomena including damping and resonance, central force problems and planetary orbits, rigid body mechanics, an introduction to the calculus of variation and the principle of least action, generalized coordinates, with Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics.

Eligibility


Start Date

End Date

Subject Description

Physics

Subject

PHYSICS

Catalog Number

421

Class Number

33382

Course ID

005115

Section

01

Academic Career

UGRD

Meeting

Tu Th 10:00AM 11:15AM Hasbrouck Lab Add room 126

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