Lecture, three hours; discussion, one hour. Lagrangian formulation, action, symmetries, conservation laws; Hamiltonian formulation, canonical structure, symmetries. Applications: harmonic oscillators, rotating solids. Special relativistic mechanics, Maxwell field, and dynamics of charged particles. Nonlinear dynamics and global behavior. Letter grading.

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Instructor
Pietro Musumeci
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23F

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