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Basic principles; conservation laws, systems of particles, accelerated coordinates systems, Lagarangian dynamics; constrained motion, generalized coordinates, Hamilton principle, symmetry principles, small oscillations; normal modes, modal matrix, normal coordinates, Lagarangian for a continuous string, Rigid bodies; inertia tensor, Euler’s equations, Hamilton’s dynamics; Hamilton-Jacobi theory, strings, solution for an infinite string . |