PHYS 431Classical Mechanics 3
- Faculty
- Science
- Last listed
- 1978–79
No longer offered. It’s in Waterloo’s scanned calendars from 1963–64 to 1978–79; the 1995–96 to 2023–24 calendars are on ucalendar.
Review of Lagrangian formulation, Hamiltonian formulation, variational principles, canonical transformations, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, Poisson brackets, application to continuous media, relativistic mechanics, classical theory of fields. Prerequisites: Physics 362*, 363*, 364* and 365* 3 lectures, Fall term
As printed in the 1974–75 to 1978–79 calendars, read by OCR; the scanned page is the original.
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In the scanned calendars
How it read in each calendar from 1963–64 to 1978–79, 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.
1974–75 to 1978–79 5 calendars
Review of Lagrangian formulation, Hamiltonian formulation, variational principles, canonical transformations, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, Poisson brackets, application to continuous media, relativistic mechanics, classical theory of fields. Prerequisites: Physics 362*, 363*, 364* and 365* 3 lectures, Fall term
* Listed that year without a description, or as not offered.
1964–65 to 1973–74 10 calendars
Review of Lagrangian formulation of mechanics. Rotation of a rigid body; the inertia tensor; Hamilton’s principle; Hamilton’s equations. Classical theory of small vibrations. Dynamics of deformable matter; elasticity; hydrodynamics.
2 lectures.
1963–64 1 calendar
Titled Quantum Mechanics.
Variational principles in mechanics; Hamilton’s formulation of mechanics. Classical theory of small vibrations. Physical principles of the quantum theory; Schroedinger’s wave mechanics; angular momentum operators; the hydrogen atom; perturbation theory.
2 lectures.