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Physics 2820: Computational Mechanics
This
course will be offered annually in Fall Term.
This course covers Newtonian dynamics and celestial mechanics, numerical
differentiation and integration, numerical solutions to mechanics
problems, data and spectral analysis, Fourier series and normal modes,
oscillations and vibrations, linear and non-linear oscillators,
nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
- Numerical analysis using MS Excel
and Mathematica, and an introduction to modeling in physics.
Prerequisites: Physics 1051 (or
1054), and Mathematics 2000 which may be taken concurrently.
Instructor:
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Topics to be Covered:
- Functions, derivatives and numerical integration
- Raindrops, pebbles and shuttlecocks: objects falling in the air
- Vectors, baseballs, planets and moonshots
- Using Mathematica to do traditional Physics
- Potential energy and conservative forces
- Newton's second law topics in linear monentum and gravitation
- Oscillatory motion topics in wave motion
- Chaos (time permitting)
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