Standard Course Syllabus
Physics 3500
Analytical Mechanics

 Date Approved:  26 March 2001 

Offered: Fall Semester annually.

 Prerequisites for this Course: Physics 2220, Math 2280.

 This course is a prerequisite for: Physics 3540.

 Credit Hours: Three.  Three hours of lecture per week.

 Example Text: Newtonian Dynamics by Baierlein, Analytical Mechanics by Fowles and Cassiday

 Topics Covered: Projectile motion.  Oscillations.  Conservation of mechanical energy.  Orbits.  Accelerated reference frames.  Rigid body motion.  Lagrangian methods.