Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science
Study Cycle: Graduate

SUBJECT

Code
Subject
MMM0003 Analytical Mechanics
Section
Semester
Hours: C+S+L
Category
Type
Mathematics - in Romanian
Mathematics - in Hungarian
6
2+1+0
speciality
optional
Mathematics-Computer Science - in Hungarian
6
2+1+0
speciality
optional
Applied Mathematics
6
2+1+0
speciality
optional
Teaching Staff in Charge
Lect. GROSAN Teodor, Ph.D.,  tgrosanmath.ubbcluj.ro
Assoc.Prof. SZENKOVITS Ferenc, Ph.D.,  fszenkomath.ubbcluj.ro
Aims
Teaching of fundamental notions of mechanics: cinematics of the material point and of rigid body, fundamental notions from the dynamics of the material point and of the rigid body. Application of the theory of differential and integral calculus theory and also of the theory of differential equations in the study of some special problems in mechanics.
Content
1. Lagrangean mechanics:
-Restrictions of motion and displacements
-The equation of d'Alembert and Lagrange. Applications:
-Equations for the motion of rigid bodies.
-The principle of virtual displacements. Applications
-Lagrange's equations of the first kind
-Lagrange equations of the second kind. Prime integrals. Applications
2. Mechanics of nonholonomic systems
-Lagrange's equations of the second kind with multipliers
3. Hamiltonean mechanics:
-Theory of Hamilton's equations. Prime integrals
-Theory of Hamilton and Jacobi. Applications
4. The stability theory:
-Equivalent definitions of the stable equilibrium
-Theorems for stability.
-Equations of the small oscillations around a stable equillibrium configuration.
-Applications.
5. Variational principles of mechanics
-Basic notions of calculus of variations
- Hamilton's principle


References
1. AARON, FRANCISC D.: Mecanica Analitica. Bucuresti: Editura BIC ALL, 2002.
2. ARNOLD, VLADIMIR I.: Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics. Berlin: Springer, 1997.
3. BRADEANU, PETRE: Mecanica Teoretica, vol. 2. Cluj-Napoca: Litografia Univ. Babes-Bolyai, 1984.
4.CHOQUARD PHILIPPE, Mecanique Analytique, vol.1-2. Lausanne: Presses Polytechniques et Universitaires Romandes, 1992.
5. COOPER, RICHARD K. - PELLEGRINI, CLAUDIO: Modern Analytical Mechanics. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1999.
6. DRAGOS, LAZAR: Principiile Mecanicii Analitice. Bucuresti: Ed. Tehnica, 1976.
7. IACOB, CAIUS: Mecanica Teoretica. Bucuresti: Editura Didactica si Pedagogica, 1972.
8. TOROK, JOSEF. S.: Analytical Mechanics with an Introduction to Dynamical Systems. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2000.
9. TURCU, AUREL - KOHR-ILE, MIRELA: Culegere de Probleme de Mecanica Teoretica. Cluj-Napoca: Litografia Univ. Babes-Bolyai, Cluj-Napoca, 1993.
10.WOODHOUSE, NICHOLAS M.J.: Introduction to Analytical Dynamics. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1987.
11. ARNOLD, V.I.: A mechanika matematikai módszerei, Muszaki Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 1985.
12. BUDÓ Ágoston: Mechanika. Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1972
13. TURCU, A.,Mecanica Teoretica, Vol.3,Mecanica Analitica, Univ."Babes-Bolyai", Cluj-Napoca, litogr., 1981.
14. GÁBOS Z.: Az elméleti fizika alapjai. Dacia Könyvkiadó, Kolozsvár, 1982.
15. GANTMACHER, F.: Lectures in Analytical Mechanics. Mir Publishers, Moscow, 1975.
16. LANDAU, L. D. - LIFSIT, E. M.: Mecanica. Fizica teoretica. Editura Tehnica, Bucuresti, 1966.
17. NAGY Károly: Elméleti mechanika. Nemzeti Tankönyvkiadó, Budapest, 1993.
18. SZENKOVITS Ferenc et alii: Mechanikai rendszerek számítógépes modellezése. Kolozsvár, Sciencia Kiadó, 2002.
19. SZENKOVITS Ferenc: Analitikus mechanika. Kézirat, 2004. [http://math.ubbcluj.ro/~fszenko/em2]
Assessment
Exam (70%) + student activity (20%) + test paper (10%).
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