Classical Mechanics (2025)

Classical mechanics is the heart and soul of all physics.  Everything else -- be its relativity, electromagnetism, statistical mechanics, and even quantum mechanics and quantum field theory -- builds crucially on the ideas we will explore in this course. To begin with, we must learn how to "see" the world with the physicist's eyes, and "model" it using simpler pictures, which we can translate into equations that we can try to "understand" and only sometimes "solve". Equally important are the underlying concepts: e.g., degrees of freedom, symmetry, action, stability, integrability, flows, and adiabatic invariance, as well as their consequences. These concepts, in turn, provide a new pair of eyes that reveal new pictures in more abstract spaces.

Target Audience

This is course PHY-104.1 in the TIFR graduate school.

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