Lectures

Lecture notes


Lecture 1 -- Introduction, Newton's Laws, simple examples, naive numerical approximations.

Lecture 2 -- The Lagrangian formulation of classical mechanics.

Lecture 3 -- The action principle, Hamilton's equations, conservation laws..

Lecture 9 -- Introduction to the operator formulation of classical mechanics.

Lecture 10 -- The Trotter theorem and numerical integrators..

Lecture 11 -- Multiple time scale integration..

Download lectures in postscript form