Intermediate Mechanics

3 credits

Review of kinematics, Newton's laws, angular momentum and fixed axis rotation. Rigid body motion, central forces, non-inertial frames of reference. Introduction to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. [3-0-1] Prerequisite: One of PHYS_V 106, PHYS_V 107, PHYS_V 117, PHYS_V 170, SCIE_V 001, PHYS_O 111 and one of MATH_V 152, MATH_V 221, MATH_V 223, MATH_O 222. Corequisite: One of MATH_V 200, MATH_V 217, MATH_V 226, MATH_V 253, MATH_V 254, MATH_O 200.