Classical Mechanics III

Photograph of a pendulum suspended from the ceiling over a circular base.

MIT Lincoln Laboratory's installation of a pendulum re-creates Foucault's seminal demonstration of Earth's rotation. (Photo courtesy of MIT Lincoln Laboratory.)

 

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8.09

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Fall 2014

Level

Undergraduate

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Course Description

This course covers Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, systems with constraints, rigid body dynamics, vibrations, central forces, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, action-angle variables, perturbation theory, and continuous systems. It provides an introduction to ideal and viscous fluid mechanics, including turbulence, as well as an introduction to nonlinear dynamics, including chaos.

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Iain Stewart. 8.09 Classical Mechanics III. Fall 2014. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.


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