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Course description
Credit Points: 5
Mechanics: Measurements and vectors. Newton’s laws. Rectilinear and circular motion. Co-ordinate systems: cylindrical and spherical. Inertial and non-inertial frames of references. Centrifugal and Corioli’s forces. Linear and angular momenta. Work, potential and kinetic energy. Conservation laws. Equilibrium conditions. Harmonic motion: simple, forced and damped. Moment of inertia, precession. The gyroscope. Gravitation, Kepler’s laws, motion of satellites.
Mechanics: Measurements and vectors. Newton’s laws. Rectilinear and circular motion. Co-ordinate systems: cylindrical and spherical. Inertial and non-inertial frames of references. Centrifugal and Corioli’s forces. Linear and angular momenta. Work, potential and kinetic energy. Conservation laws. Equilibrium conditions. Harmonic motion: simple, forced and damped. Moment of inertia, precession. The gyroscope. Gravitation, Kepler’s laws, motion of satellites.