Lecture 3 Flashcards
(47 cards)
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Motion of a particle in a conservattive force field
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2
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The Euler-Lagrange equation
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3
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Newton’s problem of mimimal resistance
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Constrained variational principles
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Elastic rods
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Buckling and bifurcation theory
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Laplace’s equation
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The Euler-Lagrange equation(part 2)
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9
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The wave equation
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Hamiltonian mechanics
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Poisson brackets
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12
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Rigid body rotations
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Hamiltonian PDEs
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Path integrals
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15
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The principle of stationary action
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The variational derivative
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Derivation of Newton’s resistance functional
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Resistances of some simple shapes
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The variational problem
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The Euler-Lagrange equation(part1, 2)
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Eigenvalue problems
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Kinematics
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Equivalence with Newton’s second law
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Examples from mechanics
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Non-radially symmetric solutions
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Dimensional consideration
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The persistence length of DNA
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Energy minimizers
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Solution by elliptic functions
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Lyapounov-Schmidt reduction
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Dirichlet principle
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The direct method
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Electrostatics
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The minimal surface equation
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The Legendre transform
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Canonical coordinates
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Spatial description
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Body description
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The kinetic energy
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The rigid body Poisson bracket
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Poisson brackets
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Fresnel integrals
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Stationary phase
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The Feynman path integral
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The Trotter product formula
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Semiclassical limit
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