Skip to Main Content

PEP 320

Download as PDF

Analytical Mechanics

Department of Physics (Department)Engineering and Science

Course Description

Particle motion in one dimension. Simple harmonic oscillators. Motion in two and three dimensions, kinematics, work and energy, conservative forces, central forces, scattering. Systems of particles, linear and angular momentum theorems, collisions, linear spring systems, normal modes. Lagrange's equations, applications to simple systems. Introduction to moment of inertia tensor and to Hamilton's equations.

Credits

3