Course Syllabus

Välkommen till kursen FYP302

Course start

Day: 7 November 2022

Time: 13:15 

Place: FL 41

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Kursansvarig/Föreläsare/Kontaktinformation

Lecturer and examiner: Mohsen Mirkhalaf

Email: mohsen.mirkhalaf@physics.gu.se 

Office: Soliden, 3rd floor, Room 3011

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Teaching assistant: 

Enrique Rozas Garcia (email: enrique.rozas.garcia@physics.gu.se)

Linus Sundberg (email: linus.sundberg@physics.gu.se) 

Office: Soliden, 3rd floor, Room 3005

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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 7. Check timeedit for the schedule and lecture rooms: https://cloud.timeedit.net/chalmers/web/public/ri16Q653505067QQ55ZZ856005yYW06976576106Q650.html 

 

Content of different lectures:

• Lecture 1: Introduction to Lagrangian mechanics; Generalized coordinates (section 1); The principle of least action (reduced version of section 2).

• Lecture 2: The Lagrangian for a system of particles (reduced version of section 5); Hamilton's equations (section 40).

• Lecture 3: Free oscillations in one dimension (section 21); Forced oscillations (reduced version of section 22).

• Lecture 4: Oscillations of systems with more than one degree of freedom (reduced version of section 23).

• Lecture 5: Angular velocity (reduced version of section 31); The inertia tensor (reduced version of section 32).

• 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).

 

Evaluation:

Evaluation and grading will be based on, (i) assignments, and (ii) final project. There are also some optional assignments which will have extra grades.