ADVANCED DYNAMICS

Physics 821

Spring 2015

Instructor: Uwe Thumm

Office: Cardwell Hall, Rm 212

Office hours: by appointment

e-mail: thumm@phys.ksu.edu

Home page: http://www.phys.ksu.edu/~thumm

Text book (required): Goldstein, 'Classical Mechanics', 3rd edition, Addison-Wesley 2002

Supplementary books (not required):

Arya, ’Introduction to Classical Mechanics’, Prentice Hall 1990.

Landau, Lifshitz, ‘Mechanics’, 3rd edition, Pergamon 1989.

Gutzwiller, ‘Chaos in Classical and Quantum Mechanics’, Springer 1990.

Bergé, Pomeau, Vidal, ‘Order within Chaos’, Herman 1984.

Schuster, ‘Deterministic Chaos’, 2nd edition, VCH 1988.

Cvitanović, ‘Universality in Chaos’, 2nd edition, IOP Publishing Ltd. 1989.

Topics: Basic Principles of Newtonian Mechanics

Lagrange's Equations

Central Force Problems, Scattering

Hamilton’s Equations of Motion

Canonical Transformations

Hamilton-Jakobi Theory

Special Relativity

Dynamical Systems and Chaos

Credit : Exam 1 200 points

Exam 2 200 points

Final Exam 300 points

Homework/Project 300 points

Grades: A > 849 points

B 700-849 points

C 550 - 699 points

D 450 - 549 points

F < 450 points

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