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PHYS 208 -  Classical Mechanics of Particles and Waves I

Spring (4) Cooke

Newton’s laws, the simple harmonic oscillator, nonlinear oscillations and chaos, variational methods, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. Overview of relevant mathematical methods.