P601 - Classical Mechanics
- Two-body Central force problem (reduced mass), planet orbits,Virial theorem.
- Collisions and scattering, CM and lab frames, scattering cross section.
- Motion in non-inertial frames, Coriolis force.
- principle of virtual work, constraints, D Alemberts principle.
- Generalized coordinates, velocities and momenta, Lagranges formulation.
- principle of list action, fomulation by Maupertuls, Euler, Hamilton, Liouvilles theorem.
- Hamilton's equations, poisson brackets.