Geometric Mechanics — 1st Semester 2018/2019

Lecturer:	José Natário

	Email: jnatar@math.tecnico.ulisboa.pt

	Office: Mathematics Building, 4th floor, room 4.29

Classes:	Wednesdays and Fridays from 9:00 to 11:00 in classrooms I8 and Q5.1
Office Hours:	Thursdays from 11:00 to 12:00 and from 15:00 to 16:00

Announcements

The final grades are now available (see side bar). If you want to take a look at your graded exams come to my office at your convenience.

You can see surprising motions of mechanical systems with nonholonomic constraints here.

You see more about the motion of a Lagrange top and its relation to the precession of the Earth's axis here.

You can see examples of the instability of free rigid body rotations about the intermediate axis here.

Geometric Mechanics: mechanical systems, holonomic constraints, rigid body, non-holonomic constraints, Lagrangian mechanics, Hamiltonian mechanics, completely integrable systems, symplectic and Poisson geometry, symmetry and reduction.

Relativity: Galileo spacetime, special relativity, Cartan connection, general relativity, Schwarzschild solution, cosmology.