Valid for: 2022/23
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering, LTH
Decided by: PLED M
Date of Decision: 2022-04-07
Language of instruction: The course will be given in English
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
Judgement and approach
For a passing grade the student must
Lagrange’s method: mechanical systems, degrees of freedom, generalized coordinates, the Lagrangian, variational principles, Euler-Lagrange’s equations, cyclic coordinates, constants of motion, Noether’s theorem. Hamilton’s method: canonical momenta, Legendre transformation, phase space, the Hamiltonian, Hamiltonian dynamics, Liouville’s theorem, canonical transformations, the Poisson bracket, integral invariants, transformation theory, integrable systems, action-angle variables. Hanilton-Jacobi’s method: Hamilton-Jacobi and the Schrödinger equation. Periodic and chaotic motions. Somewhat on analytical mechanics and its relation to classical statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics.
Grading scale: TH - (U,3,4,5) - (Fail, Three, Four, Five)
Assessment: Hand in exercises and written exam.
The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.
Assumed prior knowledge: Basic courses in Mechanics, Linear Algebra and Calculus in One Variable and Several Variables.
The number of participants is limited to: No
The course might be cancelled: If the number of applicants is less than 12.
Course coordinator: Solveig Melin, solveig.melin@mek.lth.se
Course homepage: http://www.mek.lth.se