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analytical mechanics - 114101
  Lecture Tutorial Project/
Seminar 		Laboratory
Weekly
Hours 		3 2    
Credit
Points
4.0
 

Prerequisites: ( differential and integral calculus 2t 104013
and ordinary differential equations/t 104135
and physics 2p 114076 )
or ( differential and integral calculus 2t 104013
and ordinary differential equations/t 104135
and physics 2mm 114075 )


Survey of Newtonian mechanics. Variational principles and Lagrange equations.
Conservation laws. Central force and the two body problem. Scattering.
Motion of rigid bodies: Euler angles, inertia tensor, the gyroscope.
Small oscillations: vibrational mode as an eigenvalue problem.
Canonical formalism: Hamiltonian, canonical transformations, Poisson brackets,
Lioville theorem. Hamilton-Jacobi equation.

 
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