This is the second course in classical mechancis for first year Mathematics and Physics B.Sc. students
The course is scheduled to meet from 10:30 to 11:45 am on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays in Lecture Hall 1 at CMI.
The first meeting will be on Monday 2 Jan, 2023 at 1030am in LH1.
Topics: Degrees of freedom, configuration space, phase space, dynamical variables, conserved quantities, Hamilton's principle of extremal action, Euler-Lagrange Equations, conjugate momenta, cyclic coordinates, conserved Hamiltonian and energy, Noether's theorem, Hamilton's equations, Legendre transform from Lagrangian to Hamiltonian, phase space variational principle, Poisson brackets, canonical transformations, two-body problem of gravitating point masses, small oscillations, normal modes, rigid body mechanics.Some brief lecture notes are here.
Problem set 1 is due by 6pm on Saturday Jan 7, 2023
Problem set 2 is due by 6pm on Saturday Jan 21, 2023
Problem set 3 is due by 8pm on Monday Feb 6, 2023
Problem set 4 is due by 6pm on Friday Feb 17, 2023
The mid-sem exam is scheduled for 9:30 am in LH1 on Friday, 24 February 2023. Computers/phones/notes/books/discussion/copying are not permitted. Answers must be written with a blue pen.
Problem set 5 is due by 6pm on Sunday Mar 26, 2023
Problem set 6 is due by 6pm on Saturday April 15, 2023
The end-sem exam is scheduled for 9:30 am in LH1 on Tuesday, 25 April 2023. Computers/phones/notes/books/discussion/copying are not permitted. Answers must be written with a blue pen.