PHYS 350 - 2005W [Bibliography]

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You can find the lecture notes at this link or at the Wiki.

Week 1 - Background Material

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 1-3. Top

  • ``Classical Mechanics''
    REF: Goldstein, H. 1980, Chapter 1. Top

Week 2 - Hamilton's Principle

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 17. Top

  • ``Classical Mechanics''
    REF: Goldstein, H. 1980, Chapter 2. Top

  • ``Mechanics''
    REF: Landau, L. D., Lifshitz, E. M. 1988, Chapter 1. Top

Week 3 - Conservative Systems

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 5 up to page 86. Top

  • ``Classical Mechanics''
    REF: Goldstein, H. 1980, Chapter 3 up to page 82. Top

Week 4 - Dissipative Systems

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 6. Top

Week 5 - Moments of Inertia

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 7. Top

  • ``Classical Mechanics''
    REF: Goldstein, H. 1980, Chapters 4-5. Top

  • ``Mechanics''
    REF: Landau, L. D., Lifshitz, E. M. 1988, Chapter 6. Top

Week 6 - Rigid Body Motion I

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 8. Top

  • ``Classical Mechanics''
    REF: Goldstein, H. 1980, Chapters 4-5. Top

  • ``Mechanics''
    REF: Landau, L. D., Lifshitz, E. M. 1988, Chapter 6. Top

Week 7 - Rigid Body Motion II

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 9. Top

  • ``Classical Mechanics''
    REF: Goldstein, H. 1980, Chapters 4-5. Top

  • ``Mechanics''
    REF: Landau, L. D., Lifshitz, E. M. 1988, Chapter 6. Top

Week 8 - Small Oscillations about Equilibrium

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 10. Top

  • ``Classical Mechanics''
    REF: Goldstein, H. 1980, Chapter 6. Top

  • ``Mechanics''
    REF: Landau, L. D., Lifshitz, E. M. 1988, Chapter 5. Top

Week 9 - Perturbed Motion

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 11. Top

Week 10 - Strings and Membranes

  • ``Classical Mechanics''
    REF: Goldstein, H. 1980, Chapter 12 up to page 562. Top

Week 11 - Hamilton's Equations

  • ``Lagrangian Dynamics''
    REF: Wells, D. A. 1967, Chapter 16. Top

  • ``Classical Mechanics''
    REF: Goldstein, H. 1980, Chapter 8. Top

Week 12 - Consequences of Hamilton's Equations


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