Università Roma Tre

Conservative mechanical systems. Qualitative analysis of motion and Lyapunov stability. Planar systems and one-dimensional mechanical systems. Central motions and the two-body problem. Change of frames of reference. Fictitious forces. Constraints. Rigid bodies. Lagrangian mechanics: variational principles, cyclic variables, Routh method, constants of motion and symmetries. Hamiltonian mechanics: Liouville's theorem and Poincaré's recurrence theorem, canonical transformations, generating functions, Hamilton-Jacobi method and action-angle variables.

G. Gentile, Introduzione ai sistemi dinamici. 1. Equazioni differenziali ordinarie, analisi qualitativa e alcune applicazioni, available online
G. Gentile, Introduzione ai sistemi dinamici. 2. Meccanica lagrangiana e hamiltoniana, available online