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Classical Mechanics II

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Instructor: Prof. Matthew Evans
Term: January IAP 2017
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 4 problem sets · 4 solutions · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 23 other files · 3 web pages
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Classical Mechanics II

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Lecture 1: Introduction and 8.01 refresher (PDF)

Lecture 2: Building up to PLA (PDF)

Lecture 3: PLA and Lagrangian Workflow (PDF)

Lecture 4: Mechanics of Lagrangians, and why L = T - U (PDF)

Lecture 5: Full example and conservation of Energy (PDF)

Lecture 6: Conservation of Momentum, and Center of Mass (PDF)

Lecture 8: Kepler’s Laws (PDF)

Lecture 10: Oscillators (PDF)

Lecture 11: Forced Oscillations (PDF)

Lecture 13: Damped Oscillations (PDF)

Lecture 14: Tricky Potentials (PDF)

Lecture 15: Introduction to Hamiltonian Mechanics (PDF)

Lecture 16: Poisson Brackets (PDF)

Lecture 17: Canonical Transforms (PDF)

Lecture 18: Connections (PDF)