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Classical Mechanics II
Last updated 13 Aug 2019
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Syllabus
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Mathematica Guide
Material and information for week 1
- Review of Phys 3043
- Calculus of Variations
- Derivation of Euler-Lagrange Equation
- Monday (pdf)
- Wednesday (pdf)
- Friday (pdf)
- Homework 1 (pdf )
problems. Due Aug 28.
- Solutions (pdf)
Material and information for week 2
Material and information for week 3
- Lagrangian Mechanics
- Monday Labor day
- Wednesday (pdf)
- Friday (pdf)
- Homework 3 (pdf )
problems. Due Sep 11.
- Solutions (pdf)
Material and information for week 4
- Lagrangian Mechanics
- Stability and Equilibrium
- Monday (pdf)
- Wednesday (pdf)
- Friday (pdf)
- Homework 4 (pdf )
problems. Due Sep 18.
- Solutions (pdf)
Material and information for week 5
Material and information for week 6
- Orbits
- Monday (pdf)
- Tuesday Exam 1 6-8 pm room 170
- Wednesday: Review Solutions to Exam 1
- Friday (pdf)
- Homework 6 (pdf )
problems. Due Wed Oct 2.
- Solutions (pdf)
Material and information for week 7
Material and information for week 8
Material and information for week 9
Material and information for week 10
- Matrices
- Moment of Inertia tensor
- Monday (pdf)
- Wednesday (pdf)
- Friday (pdf)
- Homework 9 (pdf )
problems. Due Oct 30.
- Solutions (pdf)
Material and information for week 11
- Rotation of Rigid Bodies
- Principal axes
- Euler's equations
- Tennis Racket Theorem
- Monday (pdf)
- Wednesday (pdf)
- Friday (pdf)
- Homework 10 (pdf )
problems. Due Nov 13.
- Solutions (pdf)
- Tennis Racket Theorem (youtube)
Material and information for week 12
- Euler Angles
- Coupled oscillators and Lagrangians
- Monday (pdf)
- Wednesday: Exam 2 review
- Friday (pdf)
Material and information for week 13
- Hamiltonians
- Monday (pdf)
- Wednesday (pdf)
- Friday (pdf)
- Exam 2 (pdf) Redo exam and earn points back. Due Wednesday Nov 13 in class.
- Homework 11 (pdf )
problems. Due Nov 20.
- Solutions (pdf)
Material and information for week 14
- Phase space, Jacobians and Liouville's Theorem
- Relativity
- Monday (pdf)
- Wednesday (pdf)
- Friday (pdf)
- Homework 12 (pdf )
problems. Due Dec 4.
- Solutions (pdf)
Material and information for week 15
Brachistochrone Video (youtube)
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