PHYS 8010 - Advanced Classical Mechanics

4 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: PHYS 4600 with grade of C or higher, or equivalent, or consent of instructor.
Description
Newton’s laws, conservation laws, many-body systems, Lagrangian equations, Hamilton’s principle; motion in central fields, small oscillations, rotation of rigid bodies, Hamilton equations, canonical transformations, Hamilton-Jacobi equation, Poisson’s brackets, transition to quantum mechanics. Four lecture hours per week.