SCHEDULE

One midterm exam will be scheduled in B&L 208 on the evening of Friday 23 October, 2015.

Date	Lecture notes	Topic
31 Aug	1 + appendices A,B,C,D	A brief history, contrasting philosophies, and mathematical preliminaries
2 Sept	2	Newtonian mechanics
9 Sept	2+3	Newtonian mechanics and linear oscillators
14 Sept	3+appendix I	Driven linear oscillators and wavemotion
16 Sept	4	Non-linear dynamics and chaos
21 Sept	5	Calculus of variations
23 Sept	5	Calculus of variations, 2
28 Sept	6	Lagrangian dynamics
30 Sept	6	Holonomic systems
7 Oct	6	Non-holonomic systems
12 Oct	7	Symmetries, invariance, and Hamiltonian
14 Oct	8	Hamiltonian mechanics
19Oct	9	Two-body motion for central force
21Oct	9	Central-force orbits, scattering
23 Oct		Midterm Examination, 1930 - 2300 hours, B&L208
26 Oct	10	Motion in non-inertial reference frames
28 Oct	10	Motion in a rotating reference frame
4 Nov	11	Rigid body rotation: inertial properties
4 Nov	11	Rigid-body motion: equations of motion
9 Nov	11	Dynamics of rigid bodies
11 Nov	12	Coupled linear oscillators
16 Nov	12	Normal modes for many coupled linear oscillators
18Nov	13	Non-standard Lagrangian mechanics, Hamilton's principle
23 Nov	14	Poisson brackets. Canonical transformations,
30 Nov	14	Hamilton-Jacobi theory. Action-angle variables.
2 Dec	16	Relativistic mechanics
7 Dec	17	Transition to quantum mechanics, Epilogue.
9 Dec		Review
9 Dec		Term paper submission deadline
17 Dec		Final Examination, 1230 - 1530hours