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