• MAIN TEXT
• SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS
• COVERED MATERIAL (TENTATIVE)
• Core subjects
• More tentative
• COURSE LOGISTICS

MAIN TEXT

Landau and Lifshitz "Mechanics"

SUPPLEMENTARY TEXTS

Dittrich and Reuter "Classical and quantum dynamics"

Kotkin and Serbo "Collection of problems in classical mechanics"

COVERED MATERIAL (TENTATIVE)

Core subjects

• Action principles in mechanics

• Canonical transformations

• Hamilton-Jacobi equation

• Action-angle variables

• Adiabatic invariance

• Conditionally-periodic motion

More tentative

• Small oscillations

• Rigid body motion

• Perturbation theory, resonances

• Poincaré surface of section, mapping

• KAM theorem

• Semiclassical quantization

COURSE LOGISTICS