Physics 422 - Interm Elec & Mag
Spring
2019
01
3.00
Andrea Pocar;Sachin Shain Poruvelil
M W F 10:10AM 11:00AM
UMass Amherst
18524
Hasbrouck Lab Add room 113
pocar@physics.umass.edu;sshainporuve@umass.edu
Newtonian dynamics and analytic methods. Conservation laws. Oscillatory phenomena including damping and resonance. Central force problems and planetary orbits. Rigid body mechanics. Introduction to the calculus of variation and the principle of least action. Generalized coordinates. Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics. Prerequisites: PHYSICS 151 or 182, MATH 233.