PHYS 3410 - Classical Mechanics

(4) Credit Hours

Dynamics of particles and continuous media; Newton’s law of motion, conservation laws, generalized coordinates, Lagrange’s equations, and the principle of least action; the mechanics of continuous media, wave motion, sound, hydrostatics, rotational and irrotational flow, the equation of continuity, Laplace’s equation. Lecture 3 hours, recitation 2 hours. Prerequisites: PHYS 2300 and PHYS 2300L and PHYS 2310 and PHYS 2310L, or PHYS 1030 and PHYS 1030L and PHYS 1040 and PHYS 1040L; or department head approval. Pre or Corequisites: MATH 2450, or MATH 2550, or MATH 2560, or department head approval.; or department head approval.