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2023-2024 General/Graduate Catalog - Expires August 2029 [Archived Catalog]

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PHYS 386 - Classical Mechanics

This course offers a theoretical treatment of classical mechanics including Newtonian mechanics; conservation laws; energy, momentum and angular momentum; constrained systems; and Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. Fundamental theories are applied to selected topics such as central forces and the two-body problem; the Coulomb problem and planetary orbits; scattering of particles by a potential; small oscillations; non-inertial reference frames; rigid body dynamics; and chaotic systems.

Prerequisites:   and PHYS 382 - Mathematical Physics Online  with grades of “C” or higher. Pre- or Corequisite: MATH 365 - Ordinary Differential Equations .
Credit(s): 3
When Offered: Spring
Course Attribute(s):
  • Honors Scholar Course.


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