Syllabus for Dynamics (543 M4010)

Time: Tuesday 10:20-12:10, Thursday 9:10-10:00

Required and Suggested Texts:
1. Lecture notes (http://ccms.ntu.edu.tw/~chernrl/teaching.htm).
2. Fetter, A.L., Walecka, J.D. (1980) Theoretical mechanics of particles and continua, McGraw-Hill, New York.
3. Greenwood, D.T. (1965) Principles of Dynamics, Prentice-Hill, Englewood Cliffs.
4. Meirovitch, L. (1970) Methods of analytical dynamics,

Content and Class Schedule:
1. Newtonian Dynamics, 5 hours (9/20) (9/22) (9/27)
2. Kinematics of a rigid body and motion in a moving reference frames, 8 hours (9/29) (10/4) (10/6) (10/11) (10/13) (10/18)
3. Dynamics of rigid bodies, 8 hours (10/18) (10/20) (10/25) (10/27) (11/1) (11/3)
4. Lagrangian mechanics, 12 hours (11/10) (11/15) (11/17) (11/22) (11/24) (11/29) (12/1) (12/6)
5. Hamiltonian dynamics, 13 hours (12/8) (12/13) (12/15) (12/20) (12/22) (12/27) (12/29) (1/3) (1/5)

Grade: Midterm 40%, Final 40%, Homework 20%: