University of California San Diego, Department of Physics
Fall 2013 Physics 200A
Lecture Notes

Lecture 1: Basics of Lagrangian Mechanics - posted 30 September 2013

Lecture 2: Lagrangians, continued: Symmetry and Conservation - posted 2 October 2013

Lecture 3: Virial Theorem, etc. - posted 9 October 2013

Lecture 4: Hamiltonian Mechanics and Liouville's Theorem - posted 21 October 2013

Lecture 5: Ray and Eikonal Theory I - posted 21 October 2013

Eikonal Theory Supplement - posted 22 October 2013

Lecture 6: Hamilton Jacobi I - posted 22 October 2013

Lecture 7: Hamilton Jacobi II - posted 28 October 2013

Lecture 8: Self Focusing - posted 30 October 2013

Lecture 9: Small Oscillations 1 - reposted 18 November 2013

Lecture 10: Small Oscillations II - Linear Chains posted 18 November 2013

Lecture 11: Introduction to Continuua - reposted 20 November 2013

Lecture 12: Wave Equation - posted 25 November 2013

Lecture 13: Pondermotive Force - posted 25 November 2013

Lecture 14: Parametric Instability - poster 25 November 2013