PHYS 3032 - Classical Mechanics

Course last offered 

 :   

Spring 2018/19

Instructor(s)

 :

CHEUNG Man Fung

No. of credits

 :

3



Teaching Pattern

  • Duration of course: about 13 weeks

  • Lecture hour(s) / tutorial hour(s) per week: 3 / 1

 

Content

  • Newtonian mechanics, including rigid bodies
  • Oscillating systems
  • Gravitation and planetary motion
  • Lagrange equations
  • Hamilton's equations
  • Normal modes and small oscillations

 

Remarks

  • Prerequisite: PHYS 1111 or PHYS 1112 or PHYS 1151 or PHYS 1152 or PHYS 1312 or PHYS 2421