Physics and Astronomy - Course Details

PHYS610 (PHYS61000)

Offering:

Spring, Class 3, cr. 3

Prerequisites:

Prerequisite: PHYS 510 or equivalent.

Description:

Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics; variational principles; canonical transformations; Hamilton-Jacobi theory; theory of small oscillations; Lagrangian formulation for continuous systems and fields; classical chaos; canonical perturbation theory