Lecture notes on Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism in Accelerator Physics
Lecture notes on Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism in Accelerator Physics
Lecture notes on Classical Mechanics and Electromagnetism in Accelerator Physics
The topics in this lecture
notes are : Linear and Nonlinear Oscillators, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian
equations of motion, Canonical transformations, Liouville’s theorem,
Action-angle variables, Coordinate system and Hamiltonian in an accelerator,
Equations of motion in accelerator, Action-angle variables for circular
machines, Field errors and nonlinear resonances, Resonance overlapping and
dynamic aperture, The kinetic equation, Radiation damping effects, Primer in
Special Relativity, Selected electrostatic and magnetostatic problems, Self
field of a relativistic beam, Effect of environment on electromagnetic field
of a beam, Plane electromagnetic waves and Gaussian beams, Radiation and
retarded potentials, Scattering of electromagnetic waves, Synchrotron
radiation, Undulator radiation, Transition and diffraction radiation,
Formation length of radiation and coherent effects, Synchrotron radiation
reaction force, Waveguides and RF cavities, Laser acceleration in vacuum.
Inverse FEL acceleration.
Author(s): G.
Stupakov, The US Particle Accelerator School
This note exlains the following topics: newtonian mechanics of point like objects,
Gravitating bodies, D Alembert principle and euler lagrange equations,
Hamiltons principle, Rotating frames, Rotating frames and rigid body, Small
oscillations, The hamiltonian formalism, Nonlinear dynamics and chaos.
This note
exlains Newtonian remarks, Oscillations, Gravitation, Variational calculus, Lagrangian and hamiltonian mechanics, Central force
motion, Systems of particles, Motion in a noninertial reference frame,
Dynamics of rigid bodies and small oscillations.
The topics in this lecture
notes are : Linear and Nonlinear Oscillators, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian
equations of motion, Canonical transformations, Liouville’s theorem,
Action-angle variables, Coordinate system and Hamiltonian in an accelerator,
Equations of motion in accelerator, Action-angle variables for circular
machines, Field errors and nonlinear resonances, Resonance overlapping and
dynamic aperture, The kinetic equation, Radiation damping effects, Primer in
Special Relativity, Selected electrostatic and magnetostatic problems, Self
field of a relativistic beam, Effect of environment on electromagnetic field
of a beam, Plane electromagnetic waves and Gaussian beams, Radiation and
retarded potentials, Scattering of electromagnetic waves, Synchrotron
radiation, Undulator radiation, Transition and diffraction radiation,
Formation length of radiation and coherent effects, Synchrotron radiation
reaction force, Waveguides and RF cavities, Laser acceleration in vacuum.
Inverse FEL acceleration.
Author(s): G.
Stupakov, The US Particle Accelerator School
The contents include: Newton’s Laws of Motion, The Lagrangian
Formalism, The Motion of Rigid Bodies , The Hamiltonian Formalism,
Introduction to Dynamics, Systems of Particles, Linear Oscillations,
Calculus of Variations, Lagrangian Mechanics, Constraints, Central Forces
and Orbital Mechanics, Small Oscillations, Elastic Collisions, Noninertial
Reference Frames, Rigid Body Motion and Rotational Dynamics, Continuum
Mechanics, Special Relativity, Hamiltonian Mechanics.
This is a “minimalist” textbook for a first semester of
university, calculus-based physics, covering classical mechanics, plus a
brief introduction to thermodynamics. Topics covered includes: Acceleration,
Momentum and Inertia, Kinetic Energy, Interactions and energy, Interactions,
Forces, Impulse, Work and Power, Motion in two dimensions, Rotational
dynamics, Gravity, Simple harmonic motion, Waves in one dimension,
Thermodynamics.
This note explains the following topics: Newtonian and
Lagrangian mechanics of point particles, Hamiltonian formalism of mechanics,
Canonical transformations, Rigid body mechanics, Dynamics of continuous
media/deformable bodies: Lagrangian and Eulerian descriptions, Vibrations of
a stretched string.