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Class Detail:
WN 2013 Physics PHYSICS 401 - Intermediate Mechanics Section 001
Credits:	3
Requirements & Distribution:	BS, QR/1
Waitlist Capacity:	5
Enforced Prerequisites:	PHYSICS 340 and one of: MATH 216 or 256 or 286 or 296 or 316; or Graduate Standing.
BS:	This course counts toward the 60 credits of math/science required for a Bachelor of Science degree.
Repeatability:	May not be repeated for credit.
Primary Instructor:	Riles, Keith
	(real time availability for all sections)

Newtonian and Lagrangian mechanics: Kinematics and dynamics in one, two and three dimensions, vector analysis; motion under gravity, planetary motion; free and forced, damped and undamped harmonic oscillators; the conservation laws of mechanics; inertial and accelerated frames of reference, fictitious forces; rigid body mechanics; coupled oscillators.

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ISBN: 0534408966	Classical dynamics of particles and systems, Author: Stephen T. Thornton; Jerry B. Marion., Publisher: Brooks/Cole 5. ed. 2004
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