General Information
Course title: Classical Mechanics
Course registration number: PHYS 6220/7220
Course credits: 3
Semester offered: Fall 2011
Class time: MWF 11:00 a.m. – 11:50 a.m.
First class: Monday, 22nd August 2011
Last class: Friday, 9th December 2011
Final Examination: as per University examination schedule and Fall 2011 Schedule of Classes.
Holidays: 05 September, 17 and 18 October, 11, 23-26 November; as per University calendar.
Classroom: MH 4012
Class Website: http://astro1.panet.utoledo.edu/~vgade/teaching/phys-6220-fall-2011/
Prerequisites: Permission of Instructor
Course Text: Classical Mechanics, 3rd Edition, Herbert Goldstein, Charles Poole and John Safko, Addison Wesley, ISBN 0-201-65702-3
An errata index to the text has been compiled.
Other References: Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, Marion and Thornton
Analytical Mechanics, Fowles
Mechanics, Landau and Lifshitz
Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Lagrangian Dynamics, Dare A. Wells, McGraw Hill, ISBN 07-069258-0