Mechanics - PHYS2010
Faculty: Faculty of Science
School: School of Physics
Course Outline: http://www.phys.unsw.edu.au/
Campus: Kensington Campus
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 3
EFTSL: 0.06250 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYS1002 or PHYS1221 or PHYS1231 or PHYS1241 and MATH1231 or MATH1241; Corequisite: MATH2011 or MATH2110 or MATH2100; Exclusion: PHYS2120
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Damped and forced harmonic oscilltions and resonance phenomena. Central force problems and celestial orbits. Variational principles; the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of mechanics; coupled oscillators, normal modes, continuous systems and fields. Many-particle systems.
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