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Syllabus
Course Content on Trinket
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PHY 3110. Classical Mechanics. An advanced study of Newtonian mechanics applied to particles and systems of particles. Topics include central force motion, oscillators and coupled oscillators, rotating systems and rigid bodies, calculus of variations, and the Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulations of mechanics. Prerequisites: PHY 2020, MTH 2410, and MTH 3410 (MTH 3610 may be taken in place of MTH 2410 and MTH 3410). This course is offered in the fall of even-numbered years and consists of 6 hours of integrated lecture and laboratory per week. Four credits.
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Date
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Assignments
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| 1 | 8/27 |
- CH01
-- Read Vectors in a cartesian coordinate system
Also read the notebooks (and execute each cell) and do the first two HW assignments.
- CH01 HW - Cartesian Coordinate System.
Do the HW assignment. It has four problems. Each one requires a hand-written solution and a notebook. Submit two files for each problem, a photo or scan of the hand-written solution and your notebook. You should submit a total of 8 files.
Create a folder in our shared Google Drive called CH01. Create a subfolder in this folder with
the name of the HW assignment.
Upload the files to this subfolder. Name the files in an organized way like "Problem 1" or
something like that.
- CH01 HW - Velocity in cartesian coordinates
Do the HW assignment. It has three problems. The first two require a hand-written solution and a notebook. The third problem requires a notebook. Submit two files for each of the first two problems, a photo or scan of the hand-written solution and your notebook. You should submit a total of 5 files.
Create a folder in our shared Google Drive called CH01. Create a subfolder in this folder with
the name of the HW assignment.
Upload the files to this subfolder. Name the files in an organized way like "Problem 1" or
something like that.
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| 2 | 8/28 |
Finish HW from 8/27.
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| 3 | 8/29 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Read Newton's laws
through HW - Reference
Frames
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| 4 | 9/1 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Constant net
force
through HW -
Newton's second law
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| 5 | 9/3 |
Continue working on Newton's second law. Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Read - Conservation of Momentum
through HW - Conservation of Momentum
Make sure that you do the derivations.
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| 6 | 9/5 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Read - Polar Coordinates
through HW - Polar Coordinates
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| 7 | 9/8 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Read - Linear Drag
through HW - Linear Drag
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| 8 | 9/10 |
Quiz 02
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| 9 | 9/12 |
Finish data analysis for Linear Drag Lab.
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| 10 | 9/15 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Read - Quadratic Drag
through HW - Quadratic Drag
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| 11 | 9/17 |
Quiz 03
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| 12 | 9/19 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Read - Conservation of Momentum
through HW - Conservation of Momentum
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| 13 | 9/22 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Read - Rockets
through HW - Rocket (Fnet=0)
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| 14 | 9/24 |
Quiz 04
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| 15 | 9/26 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Read - Angular Momentum
through Homework - Angular Momentum
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| 16 | 9/29 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Torque
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| 17 | 10/1 |
Quiz 05
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| 18 | 10/3 |
Read, do notebooks, and do homework for:
Example - Rolling Without Slipping
through
Homework - Torque
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| 19 | 10/6 |
Work-Energy Theorem
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| 20 | 10/8 |
Quiz 06
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| 21 | 10/10 |
Kinetic Energy of a Rigid Body
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| 22 | 10/13 |
Conservative Forces and Potential Energy
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| 23 | 10/15 |
Quiz 07
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| 24 | 10/17 |
Complex Algebra through Simple Harmonic Motion
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| 25 | 10/27 |
Damped Oscillations
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| 26 | 10/29 |
Recitation
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| 27 | 10/31 |
Damped Oscillations
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| 28 | 11/3 |
Damped Oscillations
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