Physics 410 Physical Mechanics I

Selected Lecture Notes

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0.)    Tentative Course Outline                                                                                                13.)  Calculus of Variations Part I

1.)    Newton's Laws                                                                                                              14.)  Calculus of Variations Part II

2.)    Examples                                                                                                                        15.)  Special Relativity

3.)    Conservation Laws

4.)    Examples

5.)    Lagrange Dynamics

6.)    Harmonic Oscillator Part I

7.)    Harmonic Oscillator Part II

8.)    Coupled Oscillations and Normal Coordinates

9.)    Continuum Mechanics

10.)  Conservation Laws and Symmetries                              Link to review article on Symmetry and Noether's Theorem: http://prola.aps.org/pdf/RMP/v23/i3/p253_1

11.)  Hamiltonian Dynamics    

12.)  Newtonian Gravity