PHYS2030
Classical Theoretical Physics I [ Course Website ]
Textbook:
A. Fetter and D. Walecka, Theoretical Mechanics of Particles and Continua; (McGraw-Hill).
Course Outline:
- Calculus of Variations
- Lagrangian Mechanics
- Hamiltonian Mechanics
- Classical Chaos, Lyapunov Exponents
- Small Oscillations, Normal Modes
- Fourier transforms, Green's Functions, Ordered Exponentials Strings, Classical fields, Sturm-Liouville Problems Navier-Stokes Fluids, Turbulence, Kolmogorov Scaling Electrostatics and Special Functions (Jackson, Chapters 1, 2, 3)
