PHYS326-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

Classical Mechanics and Symmetry Principles

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

The Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of classical mechanics which provide essential preparation for all advanced courses in theoretical physics. Techniques learned have wide use in advanced quantum mechanics, quantum field theory, general relatively, particle physics and statistical mechanics.

Prerequisites

(1) PHYS202 or PHYS205; (2) PHYS203; (3) MATH201 RP: MATH202 and MATH203

Recommended Preparation

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Final Exam 65%
Problem Sets 20% The best 4 out of 5 willl count.
Test 15%

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Goldstein, Herbert , Poole, Charles P., Safko, John L; Classical mechanics ; 3rd ed; Addison Wesley, 2002.

Recommended Reading

Arnold, V. I; Mathematical methods of classical mechanics ; 2nd ed.; Springer-Verlag, 1989.

I. Percival and D. Richards,; Introduction to Dynamics ; Cambridge University Press, 1982.

L. Landau and E. Lifschitz,; Mechanics ; 3rd Edition; Pergamon, 1976.

Saletan, Eugene J. , Cromer, Alan H; Theoretical mechanics ; Wiley, 1971.

T.L. Chow; Classical Mechanics ; Wiley, New York,, 1995.

Additional Course Outline Information

Academic integrity

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $978.00

International fee $4,988.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Physical & Chemical Sciences .

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