PH350 Lecture Schedule

I anticipate that we will have around 40-42 lectures in this course.

1. 03.08.2009 Introductory Lecture (degrees of freedom ‘Kinematics’)
2. 06.08.2009 Phase space, phase portraits
3. 07.08.2009 Phase portraits, Fermat's principle and principle of least action (‘Dynamics’)
4. 10.08.2009 The Lagrangian
5. 13.08.2009
6. 14.08.2009
7. 17.08.2009 The Hamiltonian
8. 20.08.2009 Surprise Quiz 1
9. 24.08.2009 Canonical Transformations
10. 27.09.2009 Symplectic group from linear canonical transformations (Def. of group)
11. 28.09.2009 Canonical Transformations

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