PHY411/311 Advanced Classical Mechanics (Chaos)

S. G. Rajeev

Class Time for Fall 2006: Tuesdays and Thursdays 9:40-10:55 B&L 270

No Class Thursday Oct 26 and Thursday Nov 2

Problems will be avaliable here as Postscript or PDF files; new problems roughly every two or three weeks.

Problems New set i Nov 16th 2006

Syllabus(PostScript)


Mechanics Notes


Short Notes on Chaos

I will post some Some Related Reading Material here:


Stochastic Problems in Physics and Astronomy by S. Chandrashekhar


Cvitanovic et al Webbook on Chaos
Read Chapter 9 and the parts about dynamical zeta functions.


Ruelle on Dynamical Zeta Functions

Recent Article on Exact Solutions of the Three body Problem