| Lecturer | Junichiro INOUE, Professor |
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| Department | School of Engineering / Graduate School of Engineering, 2003 Fall |
| Recommended for: | Quantum Science and Energy Engineering students (2.5・2.5hrs /session 1 session / week 15 weeks / semester) |
Lecture is given based on the lecture notes distributed in the beginning of each class. This lecture involves with some basics of calculus 3 by 3 matrix operations. It is very important for students to derive the equation introduced in this class. Therefore exercise session will be given just after the lecture. Two teaching assistants will be organizing the exercise session, and there will be about hundred students. They will be ready to answer questions about the classes. Midterm exams are also given to make sure students understand the basics of Analytical Physics.
We will be reviewing the Newton's second law and its application for the case of mass system for the first part of this course. We will then focus on the vibration of multi-degree-of-freedom system and rigid-body dynamics. Furthermore we will learn about variational principles and canonical equations of motion, which are deeply related to the field of quantum mechanics.
Mechanics 1, Mechanics 2, Calculus, Linear Algebra
Lecture notes are provided.
Practice exercises on the last part of chapter are sometimes given for homework.
Lecture notes consist of 11 chapters. The amount of material covered in this course is much considering that we only have 2.5 hour of class every week. Therefore, in order to enforce your ability for analytical physics, practice exercises on the last part of each chapter are highly recommended for the review.
| Session | Chapter | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1st chapter Classical Newtonian mechanics | -Review of Newton's laws of motion and its application for the one dimensional motion |
| 2 | 1st chapter Classical Newtonian mechanics continued | -Equation of motion in polar coordinates and its application for the two dimensional motion |
| 3 | 2nd chapter Central force motion | -General solution for the central force motion -Example problems of the motion of planets |
| 4 | 3rd chapter Scattering problem | -Scattering problem as one of the example of central force motion and its example problems |
| 5 | 4th chapter Lagrangian and Lagrange's equation | -Introduction of Lagrangian and application of the Lagrange's equation. -Advantages of Lagrange's equation |
| 6 | 5th chapter Microscopic vibration | -Example problem on vibration motion and typical usage of Lagrangian. -Microscopic vibration in multiple degree of freedom system. |
| 7 | 5th chapter Microscopic vibration continued | -Example problems on vibration in multiple degree of freedom system and its characteristics |
| 8 | 6th chapter Motion of rigid body | -Introduction of inertia tensor for the case of motion of rigid body -Conservation of energy equation for the case of rigid body motion |
| 9 | 6th chapter Motion of rigid body continued | - Method of calculating inertia tensor and inertia moment |
| 10 | 7th chapter Lagrangian of the rigid body and its Equation of motion | -Equation of motion of the rigid body and its example problems. |
| 11 | 7th chapter Lagrangian of the rigid body and its Equation of motion continued. | -More difficult example problems. |
| 12 | 8th chapter Euler angle and motion of the spinning top | -Euler angle as the representation of rotating motion -Example problems about spinning top |
| 13 | 9th chapter Variational principles | -Variational principles, or the fundamental idea of deriving equation of state, and its practice problems -The relation between variational principles and principle of least action |
| 14 | 10th chapter Principle of virtual work | -Principle of virtual work -Derivation of Lagrange's equation |
| 15 | 11th chapter Hamilton's principle | -Derivation of Hamilton's principle from principle of least action -Its relation to quantum physics |
Lecture notes are provided but only in Japanese. Lecture notes consist of 7 chapters containing example problems at the end of each chapter. I would like you to use these problems for your review.
May 15, 2020