PHY 235 Classical Mechanics I

Semester: Fall
Credit Hours: 4
Prerequisite: PHY 121 or PHY 141, MTH 281 or ME 201 (may be taken concurrently)

Mathematical introduction; review of elementary mechanics; central force problems; conservation theorems and applications; Fourier and Green's functions; variational calculus and Lagrangian multipliers; Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of mechanics is introduced and applied; oscillations; normal mode theory; rigid body dynamics.

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