M2AM: DYNAMICS

WINTER TERM 2010/11 

LECTURE NOTES, EXERCISE SHEETS, SOLUTIONS, HANDOUTS 

LECTURER: DR. G.A. PAVLIOTIS


 COURSE OUTLINE

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Lectures

· Tuesdays       09:00-11:00 (Huxley 340).

· Thursdays     15:00-16:00 (Huxley 340).

 

Problems Class

Thursdays 16:00-17:00 (Huxley 341-Huxley342)

 

NO LECTURE ON THURSDAY 13/01/2010.
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Office hours

· Tuesdays 11:00-12:00.

· By appointment.

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Lecture notes

Dynamics (written by Dr. J. Gibbons)

 

Winter Term 2010-2011 Lecture Notes

 

Lecture Notes 11/01/2011

Lecture Notes 18/01/2011

Lecture Notes 20/01/2011

Lecture Notes 25/01/2011

Lecture Notes 28/01/2011

Lecture Notes 01/02/2011

Lecture Notes 03/02/2011

Lecture Notes 08/02/2011

Lecture Notes 10/02/2011

Lecture Notes 15/02/2011

Lecture Notes 17/02/2011

 

 

Winter Term 2009-2010 Lecture Notes

(Many thanks to Adrian Teng and John-Philipp Drews for scanning Lecture Notes 1-7).

Lecture Notes 1 

Lecture Notes 2

Lecture Notes 3

Lecture Notes 4

Lecture Notes 5

Lecture Notes 6

Lecture Notes 7

Lecture Notes 8

 

 

Proof of Jacobi’s Identity (by R. Lonsdale)

 

May/June 2008 Exam and Solutions
2009 Exam and Solutions

2010 Exam and Solutions
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Recommended textbooks

· L.D. Landau and E.M. Lifschitz, Mechanics (Pergamon Press, Oxford 1976)

· Kibble and Berkshire, Classical Mechanics (Longman 1996)

· Goldstein, Classical Mechanics (Addison-Wesley 1980)

 

Problem sheets can be found at the end of Chapters 2, 3, and 4 of the lecture notes.

 Problem Sheet 1

 Problem Sheet 2

 Problem Sheet 3

 

Solution sheets.

 Solutions to Problem Sheet 1.

 Solutions to Problem Sheet 2.

 Solutions to Problem Sheet 3.