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AY2015/2016 Semester 1
This course introduces fundamental concepts of analytical mechanics. Newtonian Mechanics: Motion with non-constant acceleration; Potential energy and conservative force; Conservative forces in three dimensions; Small oscillations; Coupled oscillators; Central forces; Orbits and Trajectories; Scattering. Collision in center of mass coordinates. Rotating Systems: Rotating coordinate systems; Coriolis forces and Centrifugal forces; Focault Pendulum; Rigid body rotation; inertia tensor, principal axes of inertia, precession. Lagrangian mechanics: calculus of variations; action integral; Hamilton?s principle of least action; generalised coordinates; Hamilton?s equations; Canonical transformations; Liouville?s theorem; Symmetries and conservation laws.
| AUs | 4.0 AUs |
| Categories | CoreMinorsBDE |
| Not Available To Programme | PHY(2004-2012) |
| Mutually Exclusive With | MA1001, PAP221, PH2201 |
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| Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | |||
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| 830 | 73000 TUT (T1) 0830-0930 Mon SPMS-TR+1 Wk2-13 | 73001 TUT (T2) 0830-0930 Mon SPMS-TR+2 Wk2-13 | COMMON LEC (LE) 0830-1030 Tue SPMS-LT3 | 73004 TUT (T5) 0830-0930 Thu SPMS-TR+4 Wk2-13 | |||
| 900 | |||||||
| 930 | COMMON LEC (LE) 0930-1030 Thu SPMS-LT3 | ||||||
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| 1130 | 73002 TUT (T3) 1130-1230 Wed SPMS-TR+4 Wk2-13 | 73003 TUT (T4) 1130-1230 Wed SPMS-TR+5 Wk2-13 | |||||
| 1200 | |||||||
