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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 |
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22 Aug | Intro, Evaluation and Newton's Laws | T 1.1-1.7   | |
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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 |   | |
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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 |   | |
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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 |   | |
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19 Sep | KE and Work I | T 4.1-4.5  | |
21 Sep | Test |   | |
22 Sep | HW due today |   | |
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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   | ||
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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 |   | |
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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 | |
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19 Oct | Calculus of Variations | T 6.1 - 6.4  | |
20 Oct | HW due today |   | |
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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 |   | |
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31 Oct | Test |   | |
2 Nov | Lagrangian Examples and Constraint Forces | T 7.6, 7.10   | |
3 Nov | HW due today |   | No HW due |
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7 Nov | Central Forces w/ 2 Bodies | T 8.1-8.4   | |
9 Nov | Orbits | T 8.5-8.8   | |
10 Nov |   | ||
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14 Nov | Non-Inertial Reference Frames | T 9.1-9.5  | |
16 Nov | Non-IRM | T 9.6-9.10   | |
17 Nov |   | ||
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21 Nov | Test | Chaps:???   | |
23 Nov | Thanksgiving |   | |
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27 Nov |   | ||
28 Nov | Rigid Body Rotational Motion | T 10.1-10.4   | |
30 Nov | RBRM II | T 10.5-10.8   | |
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4 Dec | HW due today |   | |
4 Dec | Coupled Oscillators and Normal Modes | T 11.1-11.3   | |
11 Dec | Final Cumulative |   | |
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