What is the minimum mathematic requirement for learning Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics?

[LCSphysicist]

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What is the minimum mathematic requirement to the Lagrangian and hamiltonian mechanics?
Maybe calc 3 and linear algebra?

 

[Dr. Courtney]

It depends on the teacher and how it is presented. When I learned it, all I had was Calc 3, diff eq, and Math Methods in Physics. A much more rigorous and fulfilling presentation is possible if one has had more instruction in Calculus of Variations than those courses often cover.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calculus_of_variations

 

[dRic2]

For a grad course a little bit of tensor calculus/differential geometry might be beneficial. I started going through a grad book on analytical mechanics without those concepts and it was quite challenging to understand some topics.