Phase space trajectories

Classical Mechanics and Relativity: Lecture 12 Theoretical physicist Dr Andrew Mitchell presents an undergraduate lecture course on Classical Mechanics and Relativity at University College Dublin. This is a complete, self-contained, and standalone course in which everything is derived from scratch. In this lecture I discuss phase space and the dynamics of classical systems in terms of the trajectory through phase space. We will see that periodic systems have bounded phase space orbits, and that systems follow the phase space contours of constant energy. Chaotic systems are also discussed. Full lecture course playlist:    • Classical Mechanics and Relativity lecture...   Course textbooks: "Classical Mechanics" by Goldstein, Safko, and Poole "Classical Mechanics" by Morin "Relativity" by Rindler