Mechanics

University of California at Santa Cruz

TEXT: S.T. Thornton and J.B. Marion, Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems

Instructor: Michael Dine

Office Hours:

Syllabus

Handout on Vectors

Handout on Oscillators

Handout on the Pendulum -- Perturbative Solution

A Mathematica File on Oscillators, Chaos

Handout with plots of phase space, chaos

Feynman Lectures on Action Principle

Handout demonstrating that the classical solution for the free particle really does minimize the action

Handout on lagrangians, Hamiltonians (includes E=mc^2)

Handout on the Central Field Problem

Handout on chapters 9 and 10 (Systems of Particles, Rotating Coordinates)

Handout on chapter 11 Moment of Inertia

Homework Assignments