Graduate Record 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED RECORD]
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AM 6210 - Analytical Dynamics
Topics include the kinematics of rigid body motion; Eulerian angles; Lagrangian equations of motion, inertia tensor; momental ellipsoid; rigid body equations of motion, Euler’s equation, force-free motion; polhode and herpolhode; theory of tops and gyroscopes; variational principles; Hamiltonian equations of motion, Poinsote representation.
Prerequisite: Differential equations, undergraduate dynamics course.
Credits: 3
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