2020-2021 Catalog

PHYS-363 Classical Mechanics

Newton's laws of motion, momentum, angular momentum, energy, conservation laws, oscillations, Lagrange equations, central forces, orbits, mechanics in non-inertial frames, rotational motion of rigid bodies, coupled oscillations, Hamiltonian mechanics.

Credits

4

Prerequisite

PHYS-152 and MATH-265 (may be taken concurrently)