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Classical Mechanics-I-::-Dec20-Mar21@CMI --- Practical Information-II
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Unit-A Some Mathematical Preparation
- Dec 14, 2020 --- Lecture 1
- Course Overview
- Dec 18, 2020 Class Cancelled for Technical Reasons
- Dec 21, 2020 --- Lecture 2
- Tutorial and Concluding Remarks (To Be Linked)
- Newton's Laws of Motion; Inertial and Non Inertial frames
Unit -B Review of Newton's Laws
- Jan 4, 2021
Structure of Newtonian Mechanics
Frames of Reference - Jan 8, 11, 15, 2021, [Cancelled]
Unit-C Energy Conservation; One and Two Particle Systems
Conservative and Non-conservative Forces; Energy Conservation;
Bounded Motion, Time period; Small Oscillations;
Getting qualitative features using energy conservation
Unit-D Two Body Systems reduced to one body problem
Separation of Centre of Mass; Motion of centre of mass and relative motion;
Conservation of Total Momentum; Two particle collisions.
Angular Momentum Conservation in spherically symmetric potential problems
Planetary motion; Bounded and unbounded orbits;
Qualitative features of motion in a spherically symmetric potential.Scattering.
Unit -E Multi-particle systems
Momentum, Energy, and Angular Momentum of a multi-particle system;
Separation into center of mass and relative coordinates.
Galilean Transformations
Remaining Topics
- Kinematics of Rigid Bodies;
- Rigid Body Dynamics-I
- Special Theory of Relativity
- Euler Lagrange Formulation
- Action Principle; Hamiltonian formulation; Poisson brackets;
- Dynamics of Rigid Bodies-II
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