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Location:  157 Fondren
Last edit: 20 Aug 2021
Thomas Coan (x8-2497)         
coan@smu.edu
Office: 47 Fondren Science
Date     | Topic | Reading/Videos Due     | HW Due |
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24 Aug | Intro, Evaluation and Newton's Laws | T 1.1-1.7   | |
26 Aug | Finish 1303 review; air resistance | T 1.7, 2.1-2.2  | |
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31 Aug | Linear Air Resistance | T 2.1-2.3 | |
2 Sep | Quadratic Air Resistance | T 2.4-2.5   | |
3 Sep | HW due today |   | |
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7 Sep | Cons. of Linear Momentum and COM | T 3.1-3.3   | |
9 Sep | Angular Momentum, Kepler's 2nd Law | T 3.4-3.5  | |
10 Sep | HW due today |   | |
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14 Sep | KE and Work | T 4.1-4.2  | |
16 Sep | Test |   | |
17 Sep | No HW due today |   | |
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21 Sep | Conservative F and F= -grad(U) | T 4.3-4.4   |   |
23 Sep | E of 1-D systems | T 4.6-4.7  |   |
24 Sep | HW due today |   | |
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28 Sep | Central Forces, Interaction E of 2 Bodies | T 4.8, 4.9   | |
30 Sep | Simple Harmonic Oscillation | T 5.1-5.3  | |
1 Oct | HW due today |   | |
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5 Oct | Damped Oscillations | T 5.4   | |
7 Oct | Driven Damped Oscillations, Resonance | T 5.5-5.6 | |
9 Oct | HW due today |   | |
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12 Oct | Fall Break. No class. |   |   |
14 Oct | Calculus of Variations | T 6.1 - 6.4  | |
15 Oct | HW due today |   | |
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19 Oct | Lagrangian Equations | T 7.1-7.3   | |
21 Oct | Lagrangian Examples | T 7.5-7.6   | |
22 Oct | HW due today |   | |
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26 Oct | Generalized Momenta and Constraint Forces | T 7.6, 7.10   | |
28 Oct | Test |   | |
29 Nov | No HW due today |   | |
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2 Nov | Central Forces w/ 2 Bodies | T 8.1-8.4   | |
4 Nov | Orbits | T 8.5-8.8   | |
5 Nov | HW due today |   | |
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9 Nov | Non-Inertial Reference Frames | T 9.1-9.5  | |
11 Nov | Non-IRF | T 9.6-9.10   | |
12 Nov | HW due today |   | |
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16 Nov | Coupled Oscillators and Normal Modes | T 11.1-11.3   | |
18 Nov | Double Pendulum | T 11.4   | |
19 Nov | HW due today |   | |
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23 Nov | Special Rel I | T 15.1-15.6   | |
25 Nov | Thanksgiving |   | |
26 Nov | No HW due today |   | |
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30 Nov | HW due today |   | |
30 Nov | Special Rel II | T 15.7-15.11   | |
2 Dec | Special Rel III | T 15.12, 15.13, 15.15   | |
3 Dec | No HW due today |   | |
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9 Dec | HW due today |   | |
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13 Dec, 8:00 - 11:00 am | Cumulative Final |   | |
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