Classical mechanics

Notes are on my up-to-date website

Course description

Klasična mehanika is a required course for second-year undergraduates in the FMF physics program. These notes are from the summer semester of the 2019-20 academic year, when the course was taught by professor Anton Ramšak (lecture); and dr. Jernej Mravlje and mag. fiz. Lara Ulčakar. The course covers Lagrangian mechanics at an upper-undergraduate level; specific material includes

• review of Newtonian dynamics: orthogonal curvilinear coordinates; non-inertial coordinate systems
• the Lagrange equations and the principle of least action
• the Lagrange equations and D’Alembert’s principle
• Noether’s theorem
• small oscillations
• the central force problem
• the kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies
• introduction to Hamiltonian mechanics: Hamilton’s equations, Poisson brackets