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Reform of the Engineering Mechanics Course System

Effective and careful research has been performed by the Section of Mechanics Teaching and Research, Southwest Petroleum University on the content, status, student characteristics of the non-mechanical and non-civil-engineering engineering mechanics course system. Reform ideas and measures, which are also applicable to other common colleges, have been suggested in the course content and course ...

A Crash Course on Quantum Mechanics

Quantum theory, like the theory of relativity, owes its birth to some problems associated with light. The apparent constancy of the speed of light led Einstein to develop the theory of relativity. The other problem, that the heated bodies emit only a finite amount of power (and not infinite) led to the birth of quantum mechanics. Both theories are more correct descriptions of nature than the cl...

V A Crash Course in Geometric Mechanics

These lecture notes are the direct result of presentations held in two consecutive years (2000 and 2001) at the Peyresq Conference Center, in the Alpes de Haute Provence, North of Nice. These summer schools were organized in conjunction with the Research Training Network MASIE (Mechanics and Symmetry in Europe) of the Fifth Framework Program of the European Commission and were intended for grad...

The Physical Pendulum in an Advanced Undergraduate Course in Mechanics

We have been using a series of computer-based problem sets on the physical pendulum in our third year undergraduate course in classical mechanics for three years. The problem sets investigate the physics of this system in ways not easily accessible without this technology, and explore various algorithms for solving mechanics problems in a Hamiltonian formulation. We shall describe some of our s...

Math 439 Course Notes Lagrangian Mechanics, Dynamics, and Control