Requirements/prerequisites:

Duration: Michaelmas term, 11 weeks

Number of lectures per week: 3 lectures including tutorials per week

Assessment:

End-of-year Examination: This module will be examined jointly with MA1242 in a 3-hour examination in Trinity term, except that those taking just one of the two modules will have a 2 hour examination.

Description:

• Introduction (Mechanics as the basis of Physics);
• Mathematical preliminaries (Vectors and their role in Mechanics, elements of vector algebra.); Kinematics;
• Newton's Laws: the foundations of Classical Mechanics;
• Linear momentum (Dynamics of multi-particle systems, centre of mass, conservation of momentum, impulse);
• Work and Energy. (Definition of work and the work-energy theorem,
• Potential and kinetic energy, conservative and non-conservative forces, conservation of energy);
• Angular momentum (Angular momentum of a point-like mass, motion with angular momentum, conservation of angular momentum).

Further information at http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~kovacs/Teaching/Mechanics/Classical_Mechanics.html

Jul 19, 2010