AM 261Newtonian Mechanics
- Offered
- Fall
- Credit
- 0.5
- Last listed
- 1994–95
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1993–94 to 1994–95; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Modeling physical reality: Mathematics vs. Physics. Point-particle model. Kinematics. Dynamics: Newton's Laws of Motion. Critique of Newton's formulation. The principle of galilean invariance. Applications: standard problems of particle motion. The conservation principles: energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum. Collision processes. The two-body problem with a central field. Introduction to the linear theory of small oscillations: normal co-ordinates, weak-coupling limit, forced vibrations of two coupled degrees of freedom.
As printed in the 1993–94 to 1994–95 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original. Later calendars (1995–96 on) aren’t on uwloo.
Requirements, as last listed
Prereq: MATH 237
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1993–94 to 1994–95, newest first. The text is OCR of the scanned pages; years whose wording matches are shown once, from the clearest scan. Each year links to its page on uwloo and to that page of the scanned PDF.
1993–94 to 1994–95 2 calendars
Modeling physical reality: Mathematics vs. Physics. Point-particle model. Kinematics. Dynamics: Newton's Laws of Motion. Critique of Newton's formulation. The principle of galilean invariance. Applications: standard problems of particle motion. The conservation principles: energy, linear momentum, and angular momentum. Collision processes. The two-body problem with a central field. Introduction to the linear theory of small oscillations: normal co-ordinates, weak-coupling limit, forced vibrations of two coupled degrees of freedom.
Prereq: MATH 237
Offered Fall · 3 class, 1 tutorial hours a week · 0.5 credit