PHYSICS 311

CLASSICAL MECHANICS 5 (4 - 2)

Instructor: Dr. Ayşe Karasu ,  Course Assistant: - Fırat Yalçın 

• The Lagrangian formulation of mechanics;
• Hamiltonian mechanics;
• The two-body central force problem;
• Dynamics of a system of particles;
• Motion in a noninertial reference frame;
• Rigid body motion;
• Coupled oscillations;
• Nonlinear oscillations and Chaos. 

•  Thornton ST & Marion JB , Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems (5^th ed.), Brooks/Cole (2003)
  

• Tuesday       9:40 - 11:30     P5   
• Wednesday    12:40 - 14:30     P7
  
• Friday          10:40 - 12:30     P5  
  

• 1^st Midterm Exam:   October 31, 2017 ; 
  

Contents:

• Introduction - Mathematical Preliminaries.
  
• Some Methods in the Calculus of Variations.
  
• Hamilton's Principle - Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dynamics.
• Central-Force Motion.

• 2^nd Midterm Exam:   November 28, 2017 ;
  

Contents:

• Dynamics of a System of Particles.
• Motion in a Noninertial Reference Frame.

• 3^th Midterm Exam:  December 26, 2017 ;
  

Contents:

• Dynamics of Rigid Bodies.
• Coupled Oscillations.
• Nonlinear Oscillations and Chaos. (?)