MECH&AE 255A
Advanced Dynamics
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering · 4 units · Graduate courses (200-299)
Variational principles and Lagrange equations. Kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies; procession and nutation of spinning bodies.
Letter grading.
Requisites
Official UCLA wording
Requisites: courses 155, 169A.
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Everything that has to come before this course, not just the courses named in the requisite above.
MECH&AE 255A
- MECH&AE 155Intermediate Dynamics
- MECH&AE 102Dynamics of Particles and Rigid Bodies
- MECH&AE 169AIntroduction to Mechanical Vibrations
- MECH&AE 101Statics and Strength of Materials
- MATH 31BIntegration and Infinite Series
2 direct requisites. Showing 15 courses over 3 levels; the branches marked with a count carry on past it. Every course here opens its own tree.
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What this course is a requisite for, and what those courses lead to in turn.
MECH&AE 255A
- MECH&AE 255BMathematical Methods in Dynamics
1 course lists this as a requisite. The whole downstream is here — 1 course over 1 level. Every course here opens its own tree.





