NYU PHYS-UA 120 Dynamics
An advanced undergraduate course on classical mechanics.
This page is for the Fall 2014 Semester.
| Prof David W. Hogg | |
|---|---|
| office | 501 Meyer |
| david.hogg | |
| Minzhi Jiang | |
| mj1364 | |
This page is for the Fall 2014 Semester. Weeks begin on Tuesdays.
| week | content |
|---|---|
| Sep 02 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Classical Mechanics, 5ed, Chapter 1 lecture: vectors, tensors, rigid bodies, scope of course do: problem set 0 |
| Sep 09 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 2 lecture: damped, driven oscillators do: problem set 1 |
| Sep 16 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 3 lecture: do: problem set 2 |
| Sep 23 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 4 lecture: action principles, central forces, orbits do: problem set 3 |
| Sep 30 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 5 lecture: schmacceleration, coriolis and centrifugal forces do: problem set 4 |
| Oct 07 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 6 lecture: do: problem set 5 |
| Oct 14 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 7 lecture: reduced mass and total mass do: problem set 6 |
| Oct 21 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 8 lecture: many-body systems; the rocket do: problem set 7 |
| Oct 28 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 9 lecture: rotors, gyroscopes; freely spinning bodies do: problem set 8 |
| Nov 04 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 10 lecture: Lagrangian; Lagrangian density do: problem set 9 |
| Nov 11 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 11 lecture: all the oscillation problems, ever do: problem set 10 |
| Nov 18 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 12 lecture: the Hamiltonian do: problem set 11 |
| Nov 25 | lecture: restricted three-body problem [no lecture on Nov 27] |
| Dec 02 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 13 lecture: geometry of phase space, sections, chaos do: problem set 12 |
| Dec 09 | read: Kibble & Berkshire, Chapter 14 lecture: canonical transformations, maps do: problem set 13 |