2024-2025 Catalog

PHYS 327 Advanced Classical Mechanics

A rigorous development of nonrelativistic mechanics: nonlinear oscillations; central-force motion, celestial mechanics, and the N-body problem; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations; rotation and rigid body motion; collisions and scattering.

Prerequisite

PHYS 218; MATH 264

Offered

Spring semester