PHYS 410 - Classical Mechanics

• Course Info:
• Syllabus
• Schedule and suggested reading.
• Grades are posted on elms.
• Mid-term exams:
  
• Exam #1 is here, and solutions.
• Exam #2 is here, and solutions.
• Final exam:
• The final exam is posted here.
• Instructions for submitting the exam are included in the pdf file.
  
• The final exam is due by 11 am on Wednesday May 14th.
  
• Applets, animations, and videos:
  
• Youtube video: Developing intuition about Stokes' Theorem
• Tennis Racket theorem (" Dzhanibekov effect" in Russia)
• with books and boxes (in Russian)
• with a ping pong paddle
• with a wing nut (starts at 0:17, in Russian)
• with a valve and strut (in Russian)
• Gyroscope precession and nutation
• Tippe top
  
• Centrifugal force
• Coriolis force
• Foucault pendulum
  
• Homework:
• Homework #1, and solutions.
  
• Homework #2, and solutions.
• Homework #3, and solutions.
• Homework #4, and solutions.
• Homework #5, and solutions.
  
• Homework #6, and solutions.
• Homework #7, and solutions.
• Homework #8, and solutions.
• Homework #9, and solutions.
  
• Homework #10, and solutions.
  
• Homework #11, and solutions.
  
• Lecture Notes:
  
• Week 1: Differential equations, Newton's laws, drag forces.
• Week 2: Charged particle, linear and angular momentum, work, energy.
• Week 3: 1D potentials, oscillations, driven oscillators.
• Week 4: Lagrangian mechanics.
• Week 5: Hamilton's principle and the calculus of variations.
• Week 6: Exam 1 review.
• Week 7: Central force motion.
• Week 8: Rigid body kinematics
• Week 9: Rigid body dynamics.
• Week 10: Tensor analysis.
• Week 11: Exam 2 review, Non-inertial frames of reference.
• Week 12: Hamiltonian mechanics, Rutherford Scattering.
• Week 13: Special relativity
• Week 14: Special relativity continued.
• Week 15: Final exam review.