Mechanics (Spring Quarter)

MWF 11:00-11:50
309 Braunstein

Prof. Slava Serota
429 Geo/Phy
serota at physics.uc.edu


Texts

Marion and Thornton "Classical Dynamics ...

Landau and Lifshitz "Mechanics"


Tentaive Syllabus (see Marion and Thornton)

  • Ch. 11 Rigid Bodies (continued)
  • Ch. 12 Coupled Oscillators
  • Ch. 13 Waves
  • Ch. 14 Special Relativity

  • Important Dates

  • April 20 - Assignment 1 due
  • May 4 - Assignment 2 due
  • May 7 - Midterm
  • May 14 - Assignment 3 due
  • May 28 - Memorial Day
  • May 30 - Assignment 4 due

  • Assignments

    Assignment 1

  • Problems 11-28 and 11-29
  • Numerical investigation of the motion of a symmetric top (¤11.10 MT and Problem 1 ¤35 LL)
  • Assignment 2

  • Problems 12-7, 12-8, 12-11, 12-12, 12-14, 12-18
  • Assignment 3

  • Problems 13-1, 13-6, 13-11, 13-14, 13-16, 13-20, 13-21, 13-22
  • Assignment 4

  • Problems 14-3, 14-9, 14-21, 14-22, 14-23, 14-35, 14-37

  • Tests

    Midterm, Spring 2001

    Final, Spring 2001


    Extras

    Landau and Lifshitz, paragraph 32, problem 7

    Marion and Thornton, problem 12-18

    Marion and Thornton, problem 12-18 (HTML)

    Tikhonov and Samarskii, inhomogeneous wave equation

    Tikhonov and Samarskii, inhomogeneous wave equation (HTML)

    Landau and Lifshitz v.II, paragraph 7, problem

    Marion and Thornton, problem 13-20