MIT Lincoln Laboratory's installation of a pendulum re-creates Foucault's seminal demonstration of Earth's rotation. (Photo courtesy of MIT Lincoln Laboratory.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Iain Stewart
MIT Course Number
8.09
As Taught In
Fall 2014
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course covers Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, systems with constraints, rigid body dynamics, vibrations, central forces, Hamilton-Jacobi theory, action-angle variables, perturbation theory, and continuous systems. It provides an introduction to ideal and viscous fluid mechanics, including turbulence, as well as an introduction to nonlinear dynamics, including chaos.
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