Università Roma Tre

Linear dynamical systems. Forced harmonic oscillator with or without
friction. Stability theorems. Parametric resonance. Chain of
coupled harmonic oscillators: continuum limit and equations of
vibrating rope. Classic elastic diffusion. Hidden prime integrals
in the two-body problem and the harmonic oscillator problem
three-dimensional.

V.I. Arnol'd, Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics, Editors
Riuniti, Rome, 1979 G. Gallavotti, Meccanica Elementare, ed. P.
Boringhieri, Turin, 1986 G. Gentile, Introduction to systems
dynamics, 1 (Ordinary differential equations, qualitative analysis and
some applications) and
2 (Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics) L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz,
Meccanica, Editori Riuniti, Rome, 1976