MCS 311 Calculus of Variations
Instructor : Dr. Nurgül Gökgöz Küçüksakallı
Office : R205 (Main Campus)
E-mail: ngokgoz@cankaya.edu.tr
Course Desscription: Lagrange multipliers, Maxima and minima, the first variation. The Euler-Lagrange equations. Constraints. Natural and boundary conditions.Transversality conditions. The Hamiltonian formulation.
Text Book : Bruce van Brut; The Calculus of Variations, Springer, 2004.
Evaluation: 2 Midterms (30%) , Final (40%)
Exam Dates:
Midterm I : 10.11.2022, 14:20, R213
Midterm II: 8.12.2022, 14:20, R213
Final: TBA