CLASSICAL MECHANICS

Basic concepts of coordinate systems and degrees of freedom; Holonomic and non-holonomic constraints; D-Alembert's Principle; Generalized coordinates; Principle of virtual work;  Lagrangian, Lagrange's equation and its applications; Velocity dependent potential in Lagrangian formulation; Generalized momentum; Hamilton's Principle; Lagrange’s equation from Hamilton's Principle.

Conservation principle and Noether's theorem; Conservation of energy, linear momentum and angular momentum as a consequence of homogeneity of time and space and isotropy of space respectively.

Eulerian angles; Euler’s theorem; Angular momentum and Inertia Tensor; Euler’s equations; Euler’s equation of motion for a rigid body.

 Legendre transformations; Generating functions; Conditions for Canonical transformation; Bilinear invariant conditions; Lagrange's and Poisson’s brackets and their relations; Angular momentum and Poisson Brackets; equation of motion in Poisson bracket formulation; Invariance of Poisson’s and Lagrange’s Brackets under canonical transformations; Liouville's theorem.

Hamilton Jacobi equation and its applications; adiabatic invariance of action variable; The Kepler problem in action angle variables; theory of small oscillations in Lagrangian formulation; theory of small oscillations in normal coordinates and normal modes; Two coupled oscillator and solution of its differential equation; Two coupled pendulum; Double pendulum.