| INSTRUCTOR |
LECTURE (WNGR 304) |
OFFICE |
OFFICE HOURS |
| MWF 11am |
WNGR 403 |
Tuesday afternoon 1:30-3:30 |
| WEEK |
DATE |
TOPIC |
HOMEWORK DUE |
| Review, Chapter 1 | |||
| September 30 | Newtonian Mechanics Notes | NO HOMEWORK | |
| October 2 | Newtonian mechanics, origins of drag Notes | Homework set 1 Homework due | |
| October 4 | Linear drag Notes | NO HOMEWORK | |
| Velocity dependent forces, Chapter 2 | |||
| October 7 | Linear drag Notes | NO HOMEWORK | |
| October 9 | Quadratic drag Notes | NO HOMEWORK | |
| October 11 | Rocket motion Notes | Homework set 2 Homework due Solution | |
| Conservation laws, rocket motion, Chapters 3 and 4 | |||
| October 14 | Rocket motion applied, angular momentum Notes | NO HOMEWORK | |
| October 16 | Torque, conservation laws Notes | NO HOMEWORK | |
| October 18 | Fermat's principle | Homework set 3 Homework due | |
| Calculus of variations, Chapter 6 | |||
| October 21 | Minimizing functionals | NO HOMEWORK | |
| October 23 | Minimizing functionals | NO HOMEWORK | |
| October 25 | Euler-Lagrange | Not yet assigned | |
| Lagrangian Mechanics, Chapter 7 | |||
| October 28 | Lagrangian Mechanics | NO HOMEWORK | |
| October 30 | Lagrangian Mechanics Eamples | NO HOMEWORK | |
| November 1 | Lagrange multipliers | Not yet assigned | |
| Lagrangian Mechanics, Chapter 7 | |||
| November 4 | Lagrange final notes | NO HOMEWORK | |
| November 6 | Review | Not yet assigned | |
| November 8 | MIDTERM - Chapters 1,2,3,4,6,7 | NO HOMEWORK | |
| Hamiltonian Mechanics, Chapter 13 | |||
| November 11 | Hamiltonian Mechanics basics | NO HOMEWORK | |
| November 13 | Hamiltonian Mechanics examples | NO HOMEWORK | |
| November 15 | Hamiltonian Mechanics extra stuff | Not yet assigned | |
| Coupled Oscillations, Chapter 11 | |||
| November 18 | Coupled springs | NO HOMEWORK | |
| November 20 | Double pendulum | NO HOMEWORK | |
| November 22 | Normal mode analysis | Not yet assigned | |
| Coupled Oscillations, Chapter 11 | |||
| November 25 | Normal mode analysis | NO HOMEWORK | |
| November 27 | Examples | NO HOMEWORK | |
| November 29 | NO CLASS, Thanksgiving | Not yet assigned | |
| Rigid Bodies, Chapter 10 | |||
| December 2 | Basic formulation | NO HOMEWORK | |
| December 4 | Euler equations | NO HOMEWORK | |
| December 6 | Examples | Not yet assigned | |
| | Thursday December 12 at 9:30 am | FINAL EXAM | |