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Graduate Record 2014-2015 
    
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Graduate Record 2014-2015 [ARCHIVED RECORD]

MAE 6210 - Analytical Dynamics

Classical analytical dynamics from a modern mathematical viewpoint: Newton’s laws, dynamical variables, many particle systems; the Lagrangian formulation, constraints and configuration manifolds, tangent bundles, differential manifolds; variational principles, least action; non-potential forces; constrained problems; linear oscillations; Hamiltonian formulation: canonical equations, Rigid body motion. Prerequisite: Undergraduate physics, ordinary differential equations.



Credits: 3