Course Title:
Nonlinear Dynamics
Course Description:
Offers various topics, depending on the instructor. Covers introduction to the Hamilton-Jacobi equation; action-angle variables, and Liouville’s integrability theorem; nonlinear oscillators; chaos in Hamiltonian systems; and continuous media via the sine-Gordon equation, solitons/antisolitons, and nonsolitonic solutions, Lagrangian derivation of the field equations, and Klein-Gordon equation.
Fall Offering:
None
Lab/Coreq 1:
Spring Offering:
Odd
Lab/Coreq 2:
Summer Offering:
None
Lab/Coreq Remarks:
Summer 1 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 1:
PHY G321
Summer 2 Offering:
None
Prerequisite 2:
Cross-Listed Course 1:
Prerequisite 3:
Cross-Listed Course 2:
Prerequisite 4:
Cross-Listed Course 3:
Prerequisite 5:
Cross-Listed Course 4:
Prerequisite Remarks:
Cross-Listed Course 5:
Repeatable:
N
