| MWF 9-9:50 AM | OPL 103 | http://www.wfu.edu/~natalie/f99phy337 |
| Instructor: Natalie Holzwarth | Phone:758-5510 | Office:300 OPL | e-mail:natalie@wfu.edu |
This course is a half-term continuation of PHY 162, focusing on the calculus of variations and on Lagrangian and Hamiltonian mechanics. The textbook is Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, Fourth Edition, By Jerry B. Marion and Stephen T. Thornton (Saunders College Publishing, 1995) -- Marion. In addition to this textbook the following books have been placed in the Physics Library for your use in the library (that is, please do not remove the books from the physics library):
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QA845 B33 1983 |
Ralph Baierlein, Newtonian Dynamics (McGraw Hill, 1987) |
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QA 805 G6 1980 |
Herbert Goldstein, Classical Mechanics (Addison-Wesley, 1980) |
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QA805 L283 1976 |
L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Mechanics (Pergamon Press, 1976) |
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QA845 M38 1970 |
Jerry B. Marion, Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems (Academic, 1970) |
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QC125.2 S94 1971 |
Keith R. Symon, Mechanics (Addison-Wesley, 1971) |
It is likely that your grade for the course will depend upon the following factors:
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Problem sets* |
50% |
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Exams |
50% |
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In general, there will a new assignment after each lecture, so that for optimal learning, it would be best to complete each assignment before the the next scheduled lecture. According to the honor system, all work submitted for grading purposes should represent the student's own best efforts.| Date | Marion Reading | Topic | Assignment | Wed, 8/25/99 | Chap. 6 | Review of extrema | #1 | Fri, 8/27/99 | Chap. 6 | Derivation of Euler's equations | #2 | Mon, 8/30/99 | Chap. 6 | Examples of Euler's equations | #3 | Wed, 9/1/99 | Chap. 6 | Effects of Constraints | #4 | Fri, 9/3/99 | Chap. 7 | Hamilton's principle | Mon, 9/6/99 | Chap. 7 | Euler-Lagrange equations | #5 | Wed, 9/8/99 | Chap. 7 | Euler-Lagrange equations | #6 | Fri, 9/10/99 | Chap. 7 | Euler-Lagrange equations | #7 | Mon, 9/13/99 | Chap. 7 | Lagrangian and Hamiltonian | Wed, 9/15/99 | Chap. 7 | Lagrangian and Hamiltonian | #8 | Fri, 9/17/99 | Chap. 7 | Hamiltonian canonical equations | #9 | Mon, 9/20/99 | Chap. 7 | Hamiltonian canonical equations | #10 | Wed, 9/22/99 | Chap. 7 | Liouville's Theorem | Fri, 9/24/99 | Chap. 7 | Review | Summarizing Activity | Mon, 9/27/99 | Chap. 12 | Coupled Oscillations | Wed, 9/29/99 | Chap. 12 | Coupled Oscillations | #11 | Fri, 10/1/99 | Chap. 12 | Coupled Oscillations | #12 | Mon, 10/4/99 | Chap. 11 | Rigid body motion | Wed, 10/6/99 | Chap. 11 | Rigid body motion | #13 | Fri, 10/8/99 | Chap. 11 | Rigid body motion | #14 | Mon, 10/11/99 | Chap. 11 | Rigid body motion | #15 |