This note describes the
following topics: The Calculus of Variations, Fermat's Principle of Least
Time, Hamilton's Principle and Noether's Theorem, Mechanical Similarity,
Hamilton's Equations, Poisson Brackets, A New Expression for the Action,
Maupertuis' Principle, Canonical Transformations, Liouville's Theorem, The
Hamilton-Jacobi Equation, Adiabatic Invariants and Action-Angle Variables,
Mathematics for Orbits, Keplerian Orbits, Elastic Scattering, Small
Oscillations, Driven Oscillator, One-Dimensional Crystal Dynamics,
Parametric Resonance, The Ponderomotive Force, Resonant Nonlinear
Oscillations, Rigid Body Motion, Moments of Inertia, Rigid Body Moving
Freely, Euler Angles, Eulers Equations, Non Inertial Frame, Coriolis effect,
A Rolling Sphere on a Rotating Plane.
This note exlains the following topics: newtonian mechanics of point like objects,
Gravitating bodies, D Alembert principle and euler lagrange equations,
Hamiltons principle, Rotating frames, Rotating frames and rigid body, Small
oscillations, The hamiltonian formalism, Nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
This note
exlains Newtonian remarks, Oscillations, Gravitation, Variational calculus, Lagrangian and hamiltonian mechanics, Central force
motion, Systems of particles, Motion in a noninertial reference frame,
Dynamics of rigid bodies and small oscillations.
The topics in this lecture
notes are : Linear and Nonlinear Oscillators, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian
equations of motion, Canonical transformations, Liouville’s theorem,
Action-angle variables, Coordinate system and Hamiltonian in an accelerator,
Equations of motion in accelerator, Action-angle variables for circular
machines, Field errors and nonlinear resonances, Resonance overlapping and
dynamic aperture, The kinetic equation, Radiation damping effects, Primer in
Special Relativity, Selected electrostatic and magnetostatic problems, Self
field of a relativistic beam, Effect of environment on electromagnetic field
of a beam, Plane electromagnetic waves and Gaussian beams, Radiation and
retarded potentials, Scattering of electromagnetic waves, Synchrotron
radiation, Undulator radiation, Transition and diffraction radiation,
Formation length of radiation and coherent effects, Synchrotron radiation
reaction force, Waveguides and RF cavities, Laser acceleration in vacuum.
Inverse FEL acceleration.
Author(s): G.
Stupakov, The US Particle Accelerator School
The contents include: Newton’s Laws of Motion, The Lagrangian
Formalism, The Motion of Rigid Bodies , The Hamiltonian Formalism,
Introduction to Dynamics, Systems of Particles, Linear Oscillations,
Calculus of Variations, Lagrangian Mechanics, Constraints, Central Forces
and Orbital Mechanics, Small Oscillations, Elastic Collisions, Noninertial
Reference Frames, Rigid Body Motion and Rotational Dynamics, Continuum
Mechanics, Special Relativity, Hamiltonian Mechanics.
This lecture note explains the following topics:
Newtons laws of motion, Scalars and Vector, Units and Dimensions, Time rate
of change of vectors, Motion in one dimension, Motion under a constant
force, Force of friction, Kinematical relations, Simple Harmonic motion,
Motion in a plane, Central force, Rotating frame of reference.
This note is about the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian
formulations of classical mechanics. Topics covered includes: Newtonian
mechanics, Lagrangian mechanics, Small oscillations, Rigid body dynamics,
Hamiltonian mechanics and Levi-Civita alternating symbol.