Analytical Dynamics

Host University

University of Virginia

Semester

Fall 2023

Course Number

MAE 6210-600

Discipline

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Instructor

Qing Chang

Course Information

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.

Prerequisites

Undergraduate physics, ordinary differential equations