Text Topics for Units 1-8  
Unit 1. Review of velocity, momentum, energy, and fields
Introduction to geometry and algebra of mechanics fundamentals by plane geometry
Review of fields and their vector analysis by geometry and complex variables
Superball missile and neutron starlet dynamics. Coupled oscilllator and rotational motion
Introduction to Hamiltonian, Estrangian, and Lagrangian contact mechanics of Action

Unit 2. Lagrangian and Hamiltionian mechanics
Generalized coordinate equations of motion. Pendulum and trebuchet motion
Sports kinematics vs. trebuchet dynamics. E&B Lagrangian and field orbits

Unit 3. General Curvilinear Coordinate transformations
Riemann-Christoffel covariant tensor equations of motion and differential geometry
Effective potentials and geometry of constraints and Lagrange multipliers

Unit 4. Oscillation and waves
Lorentz resonance response and Fourier analysis
Normal modes and U(2) Euler angle geometry of pair resonance
Fourier and symmetry analysis of wave dispersion and parametric resonance

Unit 5. Orbits and scattering
Coulomb and central-force orbits and trajectory envelopes
Rutherford orbit geometry
U(2) and R(4) geometry of oscillator and Coulomb dynamics
Rutherford, Stark, Zeeman, and 2-center orbits

Unit 6. Rigid and semi-rigid bodies
2-particle scattering.
Angular rotation and momentum of gyros, tops, spacecraft, and molecules
Euler-angle geometry and rotational energy surface analysis of soft rotors

Unit 7. Action and functional variation
Calculus of variation and Hamiltion-Jacobi equations
Geometry of contact transformations
Semiclassical action quantization by Davis-Heller phase color addition

Unit 8. Advanced Topics
Optical dispersion derivation of relativistic quantum mechanics
Chaotic motion. Optimal control theory

Appendix K. Astronomical Constants
Defining Constants
Current Best Estimates (IAU 2009)
Constants from IAU WG on Cartographic Coordinates and Rotational Elements (2007)
Other Constants