PHYSICS 281.01, Fall 2007

Course TitleCLASSICAL MECHANICS  
Class Time/Room WF 10:05 AM-11:20 AM Physics 299
Instructor(s) Wu, Ying
Web Pagehttp://www.phy.duke.edu/~wu/281/
Course DescriptionNewtonian, Lagrangian, and Hamiltonian methods for classical systems; symmetry and conservation laws; rigid body motion; normal modes and forced oscillations; small nonlinear oscillations; canonical transformations; Hamiltonian chaos. Instructor: Wu