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Location: 157 Fondren
Last edit: 20 Aug 2021
Thomas Coan (x8-2497)
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Office: 47 Fondren Science
| Date | Topic | Reading/Videos Due | HW Due |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 14 Sep | KE and Work | T 4.1-4.2 | |
| 16 Sep | Test | ||
| 17 Sep | No HW due today | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 5 Oct | Damped Oscillations | T 5.4 | |
| 7 Oct | Driven Damped Oscillations, Resonance | T 5.5-5.6 | |
| 9 Oct | HW due today | ||
| 12 Oct | Fall Break. No class. | ||
| 14 Oct | Calculus of Variations | T 6.1 - 6.4 | |
| 15 Oct | HW due today | ||
| 19 Oct | Lagrangian Equations | T 7.1-7.3 | |
| 21 Oct | Lagrangian Examples | T 7.5-7.6 | |
| 22 Oct | HW due today | ||
| 26 Oct | Generalized Momenta and Constraint Forces | T 7.6, 7.10 | |
| 28 Oct | Test | ||
| 29 Nov | No HW due today | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| 16 Nov | Coupled Oscillators and Normal Modes | T 11.1-11.3 | |
| 18 Nov | Double Pendulum | T 11.4 | |
| 19 Nov | HW due today | ||
| 23 Nov | Special Rel I | T 15.1-15.6 | |
| 25 Nov | Thanksgiving | ||
| 26 Nov | No HW due today | ||
| 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 | ||
| 9 Dec | HW due today | ||
| 13 Dec, 8:00 - 11:00 am | Cumulative Final | ||