Physics 303 Fall 2018 Schedule
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Physics 303 Fall 2018 ScheduleSubject to revision matlab examples |
| week | topic/lecture notes |
assignments/solutions/readings |
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| 1. Aug 20 |
Newton's
laws lec1.pdf Vectors and Math review lec2.pdf |
Taylor
ch. 1 recitation-1.pdf |
| 2. Aug 27 |
Single particle mechanics lec3.pdf Conservation laws lec4.pdf |
hw1 solutions Taylor ch. 2 recitation-2.pdf |
| 3. Sept 3 |
no class Monday (Labor Day) Systems of particles lec5.pdf (save for later) projectile-motion-with-linear-drag.pdf |
hw2 solutions Taylor ch. 3 recitation-3.pdf |
| 4. Sept 10 |
no class Monday (Rosh Hashana) Newtonian gravity lec6.pdf |
hw3 solutions
Taylor
ch 4 recitation-4.pdf |
| 5. Sept 17 | Oscillations
I damped oscillator lec7.pdf
Wed. test 1 test1.pdf |
hw4 solutions Taylor ch 5 test1-solutions.pdf |
| 6. Sept 24 |
Oscillations
II driven oscillator (including electrical oscilations) lec8.pdf some simple examples examples1.pdf |
recitation-5.pdf newton-constant-G.pdf |
| 7. Oct. 1 |
Fourier Series
lec9.pdf note on green's function |
Taylor
ch 6 hw5 solutions recitation-6.pdf |
| 8. Oct 8 |
Calculus
of Variations I lec10.pdf no class Friday (Fall Break) |
hw6 solutions Taylor ch 7 recitation-7.pdf |
| 9. Oct 15 |
Calculus
of Variations II lec11.pdf The Lagrangian lec12.pdf |
recitation-8.pdf |
| 10. Oct 22 |
Conservation
laws plus Examples lec13.pdf Undertermined Multipliers lec14.pdf |
hw7 solutions recitation-9.pdf recitation-9-solutions.pdf |
| 11. Oct 29 |
Hamiltonian
Dynamics lec15.pdf Phase Space lec16.pdf Friday, test 2 test2.pdf |
hw8
solutions recitation-10.pdf Taylor ch 13 test2-solutions.pdf |
| 12. Nov 5 |
Liouville's Theorem lec17.pdf Virial Theorm lec18.pdf |
recitation-11.pdf |
| 13. Nov 12 | Nonlinear systems
and Chaos I lec19.pdf vanderpol.pdf |
Taylor ch 12 hw9 solutions recitation-12.pdf |
| 14. Nov 19 |
Nonlinear
systems and Chaos II lec20.pdf ddp_matlab_gallary.pdf no class Friday (Thanksgiving) |
recitation-13.pdf hw10 solutions |
| 15. Nov 26 |
Nonlinear systems and Chaos
III lec21.pdf DDP galary of MATLAB plots ddp_matlab_gallary.pdf |
hw11 solutions recitation-14-Nov-29-2017.pdf |
| 16. Dec 3 | feigenbaum-universality.pdf west-lanl-preprint.pdf lec22.pdf universality and scaling logistic map, basins of attraction feign.pdf review |
recitation-15.pdf |
| 17. Dec 10 | Final Exam |
recitationSolutions.pdf |