Physics 421 - Classical Mechanics
Fall
2021
01
4.00
Shuang Zhou
TU TH 10:00AM 11:15AM
UMass Amherst
19200
Hasbrouck Lab Add room 126
zhou@physics.umass.edu
Advanced course in undergraduate classical mechanics covering Newtonian dynamics and analytic methods. Topics include: conservation laws, oscillatory phenomena including damping and resonance, central force problems and planetary orbits, rigid body mechanics, an introduction to the calculus of variation and the principle of least action, generalized coordinates, with Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics.
PHYSICS 282 and 287
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.