Phys 301: Classical Mechanics I 2022

Course Assistants

Fatih Aktaş, Tuğba Hırlı, Fırat Tuğa, Ege Çoban

Course description

  • Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics
  • Two body problem
  • Oscillations
  • Symmetries
  1. 03.10.2022 – Generalized coordinates, Least action principle
    • L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Mechanics, 3rd ed. (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1976): pp 1-4
    • A. Deriglazov, Classical Mechanics, 2nd ed.: pp. 29-36
  2. 05.10.2022 – Properties of the Lagrangian formulation
  3. 10.10.2022 – Galileo’s relativity principle, The Lagrangian for a free particle
    • L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Mechanics, 3rd ed. (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1976): pp 4-10
  4. 12.10.2022 – The inverse Lagrange problem
    • Havas, P. (1957). The range of application of the Lagrange formalism – I. Il Nuovo Cimento (1955-1965), 5(3), 363-388.
    • Bateman, H. (1931). On dissipative systems and related variational principles. Physical Review, 38(4), 815.
  5. 17.10.2022 – Conservation Laws
  6. 19.10.2022 – Noether’s theorem

Problem sessions

Previous year papers