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Physical Mechanics I (Honors)

Current session:

Fall 2009

Offering:

Fall, Class 3, cr. 3

Prerequisites:

Admission by special permission

Description:

Newtonian mechanics. Conservation laws. Free, damped and driven harmonic motion. Newton's law of universal gravitation. Hamilton's principle, Euler-Lagrange equations, Hamilton's equations.

Instructor(s):

GARFINKEL, ARTHUR F.

Email:

garfinke@physics.purdue.edu

Location

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Textbook(s) for Fall 2009

Textbooks for Fall 2009
Course Title Author Edition ISBN Publisher
PHYS410 Analytical Mechanics   Louis Hand & Janet Finch  1998 (Paperback)  0-521-575729  Cambridge University Press