College of Science

PHYS41000 (PHYS410) Fall 2008

Physical Mechanics I (Honors)

Current session: Fall 2008

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

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Textbook(s) for Fall 2008
Course Title Author Edition ISBN Publisher
PHYS410 Analytical Mechanics Louis Hand & Janet Finch 1998 (Paperback) 0-521-575729 Cambridge University Press