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2009-2010 Graduate Catalog 
    
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PHYS 751 - THEORETICAL MECHANICS (C)


3credit hour(s)

Description This is a one-semester course in classical mechanics.  Topics include Newtonian Mechanics, Hamilton’s Principle, Non-Inertial Frames of Reference, Lagrangian Mechanics.  Other topics will be chosen from such areas of study as Rigid Body Motion, Chaos theory, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, Perturbation Theory, Quaternion applications to rotations, Lagrangian/Hamiltonian formulations for Continuous systems and fields, and other topics of interest.

Prerequisites and Corequisites
Prerequisite:  PHYS 451

Notes
(C) denotes Common Course.


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