Analytical Mechanics

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Does anyone know when students normally learn about analytical mechanics? I haven't found it in any of the undergraduate courses, yet it seems to be the modern treatment of classical mechanics. Is it a graduate course?

[mark_alec]

We do a few weeks of that in second year at UoM. I guess for the most part as classical mechanics isn't where 'interesting' physics is anymore, it isn't a core part of the course. Instead, you will be introduced to Lagrangian and Hamiltonian methods in QED and QFT.

Take a read of the following texts if you are interested: Goldstein - Classical Mechanics and Arya - Introduction to Classical Mechanics.

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Ah ok thx mark

[Cthulhu]

I know at monash its covered in 3rd year. I think the theoretical units. If you want to learn about it now Landau's book on mechanics is [relatively old] pretty good