| Date | Subject | Chap | Probs |
| Newtonian Mechanics |
|---|
| 30 Sept | Orientation, Maple |
| |
2 Oct |
Newton's I, II, III | 1 | 1, 2 |
| 4 Oct | DE's, portraits in phase
space | 1 | 3, 4 |
| 7 Oct | e.g. oscillators, pendula | 2 |
|
| Canonical Mechanics | | |
| 9 Oct | Constraints, gen, coords, D'Al,
LE | 2 | 5, 6 |
| 11 Oct | Lagrange Eqs
| 2 | 7 |
| 14 Oct | Hamilton's Prin
- L | 2 | |
| 16 Oct |
Canonical Systems, TF's | 2 | 18, 10 |
| 18 Oct |
Symmetry - Conservation,
Canonical TF | 2 | 12 |
| 21 Oct | | 2 | 16, 17 |
| 23 Oct | KAM Theorem | 2 | 19 |
| 25 Oct
| Liouville's Theorem | 2 | 13 |
| 28 Oct | MIDTERM EXAM | 6 | |
| Chaos & Stability | | |
| 30 Oct | Mappings, bifurcations | 6 |
20 |
| 1 Nov | Chaotic pendulum | 6 | 21 |
| 4 Nov | Dyanmical flows | 6 |
|
| 6 Nov | Linear stability analysis | 6 | 22, 23 |
| 8 Nov |
" | 6 | 24 |
| 11 Nov | Measures of Chaos | 6 | 26 |
| 13 Nov | Strange attractors | 6 | 28, 29 |
| 15 Nov | | | |
| 18 Nov | Fractals | | 30 |
| 20 Nov | | | |
| 22 Nov | Continuous Systems | |
| 25 Nov | | 7 | 38 |
| 27 Nov | | | 39 |
| 29 Nov | Thanksgiving (no class) | 7 | |
| 2 Dec | Solitons | 7 | 41 |
| 4 Dec | | 7 | |
| 6 Dec | | | |
| 11 Dec, Wed | FINAL EXAM | Wed | 1200 |