PHY 500

Advanced Physically based Modeling (3 Cr.)

Prerequisite: Entrance into the Master’s program in Computer Science

Description: This class covers the topics in dynamics modeling techniques, including methods in the calculus of variations, Hamilton’s principle, Lagrangian dynamics, Hamiltonian dynamics, motion in a non-inertial reference frame, dynamics of rigid bodies (moments of inertia, inertia tensor, and stability), collision resolution (impact parameters, scattering, and restitution), and physics of continuous bodies (elasticity, deformation, stress, and strain).