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;
 
 
Excluded: PHYS2001
 
 
Fee Band: 5 (more info)
 
 
Further Information: See Class Timetable
 
 

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.