How do we describe the time evolution of an object’s position and orientation? Its momentum and angular momentum?
What causes this evolution? By imposing our own causes, how can we control a system?
What is force and how is the idea of force expanded to include effects like friction or forces inside material bodies?
How do we deal with the dynamics of rotating bodies? What is the meaning of torque and what consequences exist when torque is applied to a spinning object?
What are deeper models of macroscopic forces like friction or spring force?
What is stress and how is it distributed within a material body in response to external forces (including forces acting at the body's surfaces)?
What is the idea of stress waves in solids?
What is gravity and how does it act? What are orbits?
How does the gravitational force depend on distance between objects? What implications would there be if the power law were different (or slightly different) from what is normally expected?
What is equivalence principle that is applied to the theory of gravity? How can it be tested?
How is general relativity manifested in phenomena associated with objects in near-earth orbit?
What is the use of concepts like work and energy?
What are conservation laws and how do they shape dynamics? How do they help us describe collisions? How are conservation laws related to symmetries?
How do variational principles lead to a new viewpoint of dynamics?
What are canonical variables and what how is dynamics expressed in terms of them?
What are action-angle variables and how can they lead to useful viewpoints of dynamics?
Does a deterministic description imply complete predictability? If not, why not?
What is phase space? What is the use of geometric descriptions of dynamics called phase portraits?
What are dissipative systems? What are attractors and what types of attractors exist?