Some interesting (to me, anyway) thoughts on Classical Mechanics

[mahf]

Well, I got home a little while ago from campus. I went today to turn in Johannah's final paper for her Milton class, since she didn't have time because of work, plus I had to go finish and turn in my last homework assignment for classical mechanics today. I have to say that I have really enjoyed classical mechanics. Dr. Biswas is a very good

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[terryostrich]

Ah .. only David updates about Physics and Classical Mechanics and Lagrangian operators (I'm not even going to try to pretend to know what all of those are). You've really got a passion for all that stuff. You should be a teacher! You have a good way of explaining things. Good luck in all of your classes!

[lesliev]

Man that is impressive. My youngest bro is studying physics and I wonder if he'll get into this stuff. I am just battling basic calculus.

Keep on explaining... that's what I liked about Carl Sagan. He used to write stuff that anybody could understand and put in all the implications - and before that it was all a mathematical secret that only a few people could figure out.

[mahf]

Well it isn't really about measurements per se. Its like this. Instead of adding up all the forces, you just write down "equations of constraint" and you write down the kinetic and potential energy. The secret is that the forces are *contained* within the equations of constraint and the potential energy. But its mathematically MUCH easier to calculate the potential and the constraints