lectures at NTU
Graduate course: Classical Mechanics (2014 -- 2016)
Graduate course: Classical Mechanics (2014 -- 2016)
Textbook: "Classical Mechanics", third edition, by Goldstein, Poole and Safko
Lecture notes:
- Survey of elementary principles
- Variational principles and Lagrange's equations
- The central force problem
- Kinematics of rigid body motion
- Rigid body equation of motion
- Oscillations
- Special theory of relativity
- The Hamilton equations of motion
- Canonical transformations
- Hamilton-Jacobi theory, action-angle variables
- (skipped) clssical chaos
- Canonical perturbation theory
- Continuous systems and fields
Undergraduate course: Applied Mathematics IV (2015, 2016)
Undergraduate course: Applied Mathematics IV (2015, 2016)
Textbook: "Mathematical Methods for Physics and Engineering", third edition
by K.F. Riley, M.P. Hobson and S.J. Bence, Cambridge University Press, Chapters 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 28, 29
Extra lectures on Lie groups and Lie algebras
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