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PHYS 751 - Theoretical Mechanics

This is a one-semester course in classical mechanics. Topics include Newtonian Mechanics, Hamilton’s Principle, Non-Inertial Frames of Reference, Lagrangian Mechanics. Other topics will be chosen from such areas of study as Rigid Body Motion, Chaos theory, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, Perturbation Theory, Quaternion applications to rotations, Lagrangian/Hamiltonian formulations for Continuous systems and fields, and other topics of interest. Credits: 3


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