Physics 421 - Classical Mechanics
Fall
2025
01AA
M 4:15PM 5:05PM
UMass Amherst
68675
Hasbrouck Lab Add room 113
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 287
Multiple required components--lab and/or discussion section. To register, submit requests for all components simultaneously.