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Location: 157 Fondren
Last edit: 1 Nov 2017
Prof. Thomas Coan (x8-2497)
coan@smu.edu
Office: 47 Fondren Science
| Date | Topic | Reading Due | HW Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Aug | Intro, Evaluation and Newton's Laws | T 1.1-1.7 | |
| 24 Aug | Projectile motion and air resistance | T 1.7, 2.1-2.4 | |
| 29 Aug | Linear Air Resistance | T 2.1-2.3 | |
| 1 Sep | HW due today | ||
| 5 Sep | Linear and Quadratic Air Resistance | T 2.4-2.5 | |
| 7 Sep | Quadratic Air resistance | T 2.4-2.5 | |
| 8 Sep | HW due today | ||
| 12 Sep | Cons. of Linear Momentum and COM | T 3.1-3.3 | |
| 14 Sep | Angular Momentum, Kepler's 2nd Law | T 3.4-3.5 | |
| 15 Sep | HW due today | ||
| 19 Sep | KE and Work I | T 4.1-4.5 | |
| 21 Sep | Test | ||
| 22 Sep | HW due today | ||
| 26 Sep | KE and Work II | T 4.1-4.4 | |
| 28 Sep | U(t), E of 1-D systems, Central forces | T 4.5-4.8 | |
| 29 Sep | No HW due today | ||
| Central Forces | T 4.9-4.10 | ||
| 3 Oct | Central Forces II | T 4.10 | |
| 5 Oct | Simple/Damped Harmonic Oscillation | T 5.1-5.3 | |
| 6 Oct | No HW due today | ||
| 10 Oct | Fall Break. No class. | ||
| 11 Oct | HW due today | ||
| 12 Oct | Damped Oscillations II | T 5.4 | |
| 13 Oct | No HW due today | ||
| 17 Oct | Driven Damped Oscillations | T 5.5-5.6 | |
| 19 Oct | Calculus of Variations | T 6.1 - 6.4 | |
| 20 Oct | HW due today | ||
| 24 Oct | Caluclus of Variations with Constraints | T 6.1-6.4, TEC notes | |
| 26 Oct | Lagrangians | T 7.1-7.5 | |
| 27 Oct | HW due today | ||
| 31 Oct | Test | ||
| 2 Nov | Lagrangian Examples and Constraint Forces | T 7.6, 7.10 | |
| 3 Nov | HW due today | No HW due | |
| 7 Nov | Central Forces w/ 2 Bodies | T 8.1-8.4 | |
| 9 Nov | Orbits | T 8.5-8.8 | |
| 10 Nov | |||
| 14 Nov | Non-Inertial Reference Frames | T 9.1-9.5 | |
| 16 Nov | Non-IRM | T 9.6-9.10 | |
| 17 Nov | |||
| 21 Nov | Test | Chaps:??? | |
| 23 Nov | Thanksgiving | ||
| 27 Nov | |||
| 28 Nov | Rigid Body Rotational Motion | T 10.1-10.4 | |
| 30 Nov | RBRM II | T 10.5-10.8 | |
| 4 Dec | HW due today | ||
| 4 Dec | Coupled Oscillators and Normal Modes | T 11.1-11.3 | |
| 11 Dec | Final Cumulative | ||