Office: 3.4
Hamilton Building
Phone: 01 896 4027
Office Hours: email for appointment
E-mail: frolovs@maths.tcd.ie
Tutors /
Graders
Odd Numbered
Homework
Sets are graded by:
Stephen Britton, brittons@tcd.ie
and
Even Numbered Homework Sets are graded by:
Eoin Quinn, epquinn@gmail.com
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Tutorials: |
Friday |
11:00-11:50 |
Joly
Theatre,
Hamilton
Building |
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Lectures: |
Monday |
10:00-10:50 |
Salmon
Theatre, Hamilton Building |
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Tuesday |
15:00-15:50 |
Maxwell Theatre, Hamilton Building |
| Wednesday | 11:00-11:50 |
East
End
Building
Lecture Theatres 2 |
First part is devoted to
Lagrangian
mechanics
Second part is devoted to
Hamiltonian
mechanics, and introduces special theory
of
relativity and classical mechanics of continuous systems and fields
Required: L.D. Landau and
E.M.
Lifshitz, "Mechanics," Butterworth-Heinemann
Recommended:
L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, "The
Classical
Theory
of
Fields" : Volume 2 (Course of
Theoretical
Physics Series),
Butterworth-Heinemann;
For Your
Enjoyment
(Intuitive and Beautiful Text):
Richard Feynman, "Feynman
Lectures
on
Physics," Addison
Wesley
Longman
(June
1970)
For
your revision: I
highly recommend the Calculus
Textbook by Gilbert Strang that is available online.
Lie
Groups and Algebras: Introduction
to
Lie
group and
a
list
with
books
on
Lie
algebras
and
groups
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Homework, Part I |
10% |
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Final
Exam, Part I |
90% |
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Homework,
Part
II
|
10% |
| Final Exam, Part II | 90% |
Problems will be given on every
week
and are due at
the BEGINNING of the class
on Tuesday the following week.
Students can collaborate on their homework, however, each student
should hand in
her or his own copy of solutions.
Problem Sets:
First
Problem
Set
in
PDF format (due Tuesday, 4 October 2012)
Solutions to problems from PS1
Second
Problem
Set
in
PDF format (due Tuesday, 11 October 2012)
Solutions to problems from PS2
Third
Problem
Set
in
PDF format (due Tuesday, 18 October 2012)
Solutions to problems from PS3
Fourth
Problem
Set
in
PDF format (due Tuesday, 25 October 2012)
Solutions to problems from PS4
Fifth
Problem
Set
in
PDF format (due Tuesday, 1 November 2012)
Solutions to problems from PS5
Sixth
Problem
Set
in
PDF format (due Tuesday, 15 November 2012)
Solutions to problems from PS6
Seventh
Problem
Set
in
PDF format (due Tuesday, 22 November 2012)
Solutions to problems from PS7
Eighth
Problem Set in PDF format (due Tuesday, 29 November 2012)
Solutions to problems from PS8
Nineth
Problem
Set
in
PDF format (due Tuesday, 6 December 2011)
Solutions to problems from PS9
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SCHOLARSHIP EXAMINATION QUESTIONS
FINAL
EXAMINATION
QUESTIONS
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