Kursöversikt
Välkommen till kursen FYP302 HT Mekanik B
Kursstart
DAG: Tisdag 2 november
TID: 08:00
LOKAL: EC Länk till karta
Utgångspunkten för kursen kommer att vara campusbaserad undervisning.
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Schema och kursplaner
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Analytical Mechanics
Kursansvarig/Föreläsare/Kontaktinformation
Lecturer and examiner: Mohsen Mirkhalaf
Email: mohsen.mirkhalaf@physics.gu.se
Office: Soliden, 3rd floor, Room 3011
Office hours for questions: Schedule a meeting by email
Teaching assistant: Sushanth Kini
Email: sushanth.kini@chalmers.se
Office hours for questions: Schedule a meeting by email
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Kurslitteratur
For the analytical mechanics part of the course, we follow this book:
Landau, Lev D., and Evgenij M. Lifshitz. Mechanics: Course of Theoretical Physics. Vol. 1. 3rd ed. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1976. ISBN: 9780750628969.
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Lectures and tutorials:
There are 6 lectures and 3 tutorial sessions for the course. The first lecture will be on November 8. Check timeedit for the schedule and lecture rooms: https://cloud.timeedit.net/chalmers/web/public/ri1Y85y5Z65ZZ5Q8566635w55Q06x350ZgW650QQ5970nQu0.html
Evaluation:
Evaluation and grading will be based on (i): participation and activities in lectures and tutorials, (ii) assignments, (iii) final group project
Content of different lectures:
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Lecture 1: Introduction to Lagrangian mechanics; Generalized coordinates (section 1); The principle of least action (reduced version of section 2).
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Lecture 2: The Lagrangian for a system of particles (reduced version of section 5); Hamilton's equations (section 40).
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Lecture 3: Free oscillations in one dimension (section 21); Forced oscillations (reduced version of section 22).
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Lecture 4: Oscillations of systems with more than one degree of freedom (reduced version of section 23).
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Lecture 5: Angular velocity (reduced version of section 31); The inertia tensor (reduced version of section 32).
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Lecture 6: Angular momentum of a rigid body (reduced version of section 33); The equations of motion of a rigid body (reduced version of section 34).