Classical Mechanics (2025)

Classical mechanics is the heart and soul of all physics.  Everything else -- be relativity, statistical mechanics of many particles or fields, and even quantum mechanics or 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 from a physicist's eye, and "model" it using simpler pictures, that eventually translates into equations that we can try to "understand" and sometimes "solve". But equally important are the 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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