| Date | Tuesday |
Thursday |
| Aug. 20 |
1,4 Newton's laws, energy |
|
| Sept. 4,6 |
4 energy |
6 calculus of variations |
| Sept. 11, 13 |
6,7 Lagrangian mechanics |
7 |
| Sept. 18, 20 |
7 |
7 |
| Sept. 25, 26 |
7 |
7 Lagrange multipliers,
action in QM |
| Oct. 2, 4 |
8 N & 2-body problem | 8 2-body problem, GR corrections & black holes, dark matter. |
| Oct. 9, 11 |
9 non-inertial frames, linear | 9, 11 non-inertial frames, rotating;
coupled oscillators |
| Oct. 16, 18 |
11 coupled oscillators | R (15) special relativity |
| Oct. 23, 25 |
review |
EXAM 1 |
| Oct. 31, Nov.1 |
R (15) |
R (15) |
| Nov. 6, 8 |
R (15) |
R (15) |
| Nov. 13, 15 |
general relativity | GR, 13 Hamiltonian mech. |
| Nov. 20 |
13 |
|
| Nov. 27, 29 |
13 |
13, continuum mechanics |
| Dec. 4, 6 |
continuum mechanics |
continuum mechanics |
| Dec. 11 |
review |
|
| Dec 14, Friday 8-10am FINAL EXAM |