Classical mechanics forms the foundational laws which describe the evolution of systems in time. First developed by Isaac Newton in the late 1600s in his Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica or the Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, these laws have since become the corner stone of all of science. Subsequent reformulations by Joseph-Louis Lagrange and William Rowan Hamilton gave more elegant and novel geometric interpretations. These later developments provide essential building blocks for statistical mechanics.
In this module, we briefly touch upon these formulations.