Dynamics

PREREQUISITE: (PHYS-UA 95) OR (SCIEN-AD 113 AND SCIEN-AD 114 AND MATH-AD 121) WITH A MINIMUM GRADE OF C.

Topics include conservation laws, central force motion, Lagrange’s and Hamilton’s equations, non-inertial frames, inertia tensor, rigid body dynamics, coupled oscillators and particles, eigenvalues, eigenvectors and normal modes.