CLASSICAL MECHANICS I

(2030U – Fall 2019)

09 September 2019

Dr. Nisha Rani Agarwal

Faculty of Science
UA2027
1) Rules applied in classical mechanics with illustrations
2) Co-ordinate system: Space and Time
3) Mass
4) Force
1) Completely predictive – deterministic for a closed system

2) It has a conserved quantity: parity (oddness or evenness); spin of a particle (+1 or -1)

3) Reversible system

1) Rules applicable to the system

2) Initial conditions
1) Mass measures the amount of matter in an object.

2) Scalar quantity

3) Weight is the force of gravity acting on the body.

4) Weight is a vector quantity, it points towards the center of the Earth.

5) SI unit is kilogram (chunk of platinum-iridium alloy at the International Bureau of

Weights and Measures outside Paris)
Current definition: taking the fixed numerical value of the Planck constant h to be
6.62607015×10−34 when expressed in the unit J⋅s, which is equal to kg⋅m2⋅s−1,
where the metre and the second are defined in terms of c and ΔνCs
1) Usually think of a s push or pull

2) Vector quantity

3) Maybe a contact force or field force

 Contact forces result from physical contact between two objects

 Field forces act between disconnected objects (also called action at a
distance)