Classical Physics

Course Description

Lecture Series on Classical Physics by Prof.V.Balakrishnan, Department of Physics, IIT Madras. Among the topics in the lectures are:

- Mass, Length and Time
- Classical Dynamics
- Harmonic Oscillator
- Harmonic Oscillator
- Dimensional dynamical systems
- Dimensional dynamical systems
- The Principles of the Equations of Motion
- Maxwell's Equations
- Lagrangian for a charged particle in a EM field
- Lagrangian and Hamiltonian Dynamics
- Hamiltonian Systems
- Integrability of Hamiltonian Systems
- Emmy Noether, Symmetry, Invariance and Conservation Laws
- 2D Isotropic Oscillators, The Kepler Problem, Introduction to Statistical Physics
- Integrable Systems: Periodic, Quasiperiodic, Ergotic, Mixing Motion, Exponential Instability, global - exponential instability
- Lyapunov Exponent
- Intermitency
- E.N. Lorenz
- Exponential Divergencies, Lyapunov Exponent, Bernoulli Map, Frobenius-Perron Equation
- Lyapunov Exponent, Baker's Map, Arnold's cat map, Gauss continued fraction map
- Statistical Mechanics: Isolated Systems, Fundamental Postulate of Equilibrium, Microcanonical Ensemble
- Binomial Distribution
- Relative Fluctuation
- Thermodynamics of Ideal Gases and its Statistic Mechanics
- Boltzmann's Formula
- Probability and Maxwellian Distributions, Moment generating function, Excess Kurtosis, Lévy alpha-stable distributions
- J.A. Shabat and J.D. Tamarkin, "The problem of moments"
- Maxwellian distributions, Gunbel, Weibull & Frechet distribution, Phase Diagrams
- Phase Diagrams, Model of Paramagnetism, dipole moment, Weiss molecular field theory
- Ferromagnetism, spontaneous magnetization, Landau Theory
- Landau Theory and critical exponents, Thermodynamic relations, Continuum limit of random walk
- Lie Groups, homomorphism, kernel
- Group of proper rotation in 3D, Parametrization by Euler angles, unitary matrices, Noether's theorem
- Symmetry, Invariance and Conservation laws (Noether's theorem), Principles of Relativity
- Lorentz invariance, Riemannian manifold, metric tensors, d'Alembertian operator
- EM Field tensor, dual tensor, Levi-Civita symbol in 4D, Lorentz transformations, time-like and space-like vectors
- Lorentz transformations in EM fields

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