Subject Code:	Subject Name: Classical Mechanics	L-T-P: 3-0-0	Credit: 3
Pre-requisite(s): None
Review of Newtonian mechanics, Lagrangian mechanics, generalized coordinates, calculus of variations, Euler-Lagrange’s equation, central forces, small oscillations, Hamilton’s equations, phase space & phase trajectories, canonical transformations, Poisson brackets. Special relativity: Lorentz transformations, Time dilation/Length contraction, mass-energy equivalence, relativistic kinematics. Text/Reference Books: H. Goldstein, C. P. Poole and J. Safko, Classical Mechanics, 3rd Edition, Pearson (2012). David Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (2008), 710 pages. Bernard F. Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity, Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Subject Code:

Subject Name: Classical Mechanics

L-T-P: 3-0-0

Credit: 3

Pre-requisite(s): None

Review of Newtonian mechanics, Lagrangian mechanics, generalized coordinates, calculus of variations, Euler-Lagrange’s equation, central forces, small oscillations, Hamilton’s equations, phase space & phase trajectories, canonical transformations, Poisson brackets. Special relativity: Lorentz transformations, Time dilation/Length contraction, mass-energy equivalence, relativistic kinematics.

Text/Reference Books:

H. Goldstein, C. P. Poole and J. Safko, Classical Mechanics, 3rd Edition, Pearson (2012).
David Morin, Introduction to Classical Mechanics, Cambridge University Press (2008), 710 pages.
Bernard F. Schutz, A First Course in General Relativity, Cambridge University Press, 1985.