Physics 421 - Mechanics I
Fall
2017
01
3.00
Tigran Sedrakyan
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
31364
Newtonian dynamics and analytic methods. Conservation laws. Oscillatory phenomena including damping and resonance. Central force problems and planetary orbits. Rigid body mechanics. Introduction to the calculus of variation and the principle of least action. Generalized coordinates. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics. Prerequisites: PHYSICS 151 or 181, MATH 233.