PHYS 4304 - Mechanics

3 Semester Credit Hours

Prerequisite: PHYS 1408 and PHYS 4325, or MATH 3350 or MATH 3354, or department chair consent. Dynamics of particles and extended bodies, both rigid and fluid, using Newtonian mechanics and the Euler-Lagrange equations from Hamilton’s principle. Nonlinear systems and chaos with numerical modeling. Applications of the Navier Stokes equation.