Guest lecture as part of the 2nd-year undergraduate course “Theoretical Physics 2” (PHYS2631). The course covers calculus of varations, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, symmetry principles and advanced quantum theory.
Guest lecture as part of the 2nd-year undergraduate course “Theoretical Physics 2” (PHYS2631). The course covers calculus of varations, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics, symmetry principles and advanced quantum theory.
The lecture covered generating functions within the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian picture, canoncial transformations, and Poisson brackets.