8.09 - Theoretical Classical Mechanics / Fall 2009
Instructor: Professor Bernd Surrow
8.09 - Theoretical Classical Mechanics / Fall 2009
Instructor: Professor Bernd Surrow
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Name |
Office / Lab |
Phone |
E-mail |
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| Lecturer | 26-405 | 3-1522 | surrow@mit.edu | |
| TA |
Sergey Syritsyn |
6-308 | 4-3152 | syritsyn@mit.edu |
| Grader-TA | Ken Wang | wxz@mit.edu | ||
| Course Manager |
Nancy Boyce |
4-315 | 3-4461 | nboyce@mit.edu |
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Due date: |
Topic: |
Homework sheet: |
Solutions: |
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Sep. 17 |
Single-particle systems | ||
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Sep. 24 |
Multi-particle systems | ||
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Oct. 01 |
Boundary conditions and d'Alembert principle | ||
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Oct. 08 |
Lagrange equation | ||
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Oct. 16 |
Review problems - Exam I | ||
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Oct. 22 |
Symmetries / Lagrange equation / Hamilton | ||
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Oct. 29 |
Central force problem | ||
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Nov. 05 |
Rigid body | ||
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Nov. 12 |
Rigid body and linear oscillations |
#9 |
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Nov. 19 |
Review problems - Exam II |
#10 |
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Nov. 24 |
Hamilton equations and Poisson brackets |
#11 |
#11 |
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Dec. 03 |
Canonial transformations and invariants |
#12 |
#12 |
| Dec. 10 | Review problems - Final Exam | #13 | #13 |
| Title: | Author: |
| Classicial Mechanics | Goldstein / Poole & Safko |
| Mechanics | Landau-Lifschitz |
| Classical Dynamics | Thornton / Marion |
Last modified: 08/01/09 by B. Surrow
