In the Lagrangian way, you can pick some variables that describe the object - really these variables can be anything. The Lagrangian is then: Where T is the 'kinetic energy' and V is the 'potential'.

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Knowledge of Lagrangian mechanics assumed. Central force problem, scattering, rigid-body mechanics, normal modes and special relativity. Hamiltonian dynamics, canonical transformations, ...

review of Lagrangian, Hamiltonian and Hamilton-Jacobi formulation of classical mechanics; conflicts with experiments; key ideas in and coordinate formulation of quantum mechanics; Lecture set 2: ...

Physics 2210, classical mechanics/math Methods 1, is the first semester of our two-semester sequence of sophomore-level classical mechanics combined with math methods. The first semester is math heavy ...

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