Subject Code: PH5L001 Subject Name: Classical Mechanics L-T-P: 3-0-0 Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s):Nil
Review of Newtonian mechanics, Lagrangian mechanics, generalized coordinates, constraints, principle of virtual work, Lagrange’s equation, calculus of variations, central forces, collisions, scattering small oscillations, anharmonic oscillators. perturbation theory, forced oscillators. Hamilton’s equations, phase space & phase trajectories, canonical transformations, Poisson brackets, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, rigid body dynamics, nonlinear dynamics. Special Relativity, Lorentz transformations, relativistic kinematics and mass-energy equivalence.
Text/Reference Books:
  1. Goldstein H., Poole Jr C. P., Safko J. L., Classical Mechanics,Addison-Wesley.
  2. Landau L. and Lifshitz E., Mechanics Butterworth-Heinemann.
  3. Resnick R., Introduction to Special Relativity, John Wiley (Asia).
  4. Scheck F., Mechanics, Springer.
  5. Morse Philip,  Feshbach Herman, Methods of Theoretical Physics, Parts 1 and 2, Feshbach Publishing