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PHYS 331 - Advanced Classical Mechanics

Course Information

• Syllabus
• Office Hours: TR 9-11, and by appoitment
• Exam Dates
  • Exam I: Friday Sept. 20
  • Exam II: Monday Oct. 21
  • Exam III: Friday November 15
  • Final: TBA

Handouts

• Spherical Coordinates
• Volume Element Illustration

Homework

• Problem Set #1, solutions
  • Jupyter notebook for observatories problem: html, ipynb
• Problem Set #2, solutions
• Problem Set #3, solutions
• Problem Set #4, solutions
  • Jupyter notebook for numerical integration of Taylor example 5.3: html, ipynb
• Problem Set #5, solutions
  • Jupyter notebook for Taylor problem 12.6: html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for graphs of \( \phi(t)\), state space and Poincare sections with different \(\gamma\)'s: html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for reproduction of Fig. 12.29 Poincare section: html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for bifurcation diagrams (Fig. 12.17): html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for determining \( \gamma_5 \) : html, ipynb
• Problem Set #6, solutions
  • Jupyter notebook for Taylor problem 12.23: html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for Taylor problem 12.24: html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for Taylor problem 12.25: html, ipynb
• Problem Set #7, solutions
• Problem Set #8, solutions
• Problem Set #9, solutions
• Problem Set #10, solutions
  • Jupyter notebook for computational approach to orbital dynamics (with animation): html, ipynb
• Problem Set #11, solutions
  • Jupyter notebook for Taylor 9.24 (includes numerical solution of 9.20): html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for noninertial free fall (numerical complement to Section 9.8): html, ipynb
• Problem Set #12 solutions
• Problem Set #13, solutions
• Problem Set #14, solutions
• Problem Set #15, solutions

Exams

• Exam 1 | Solutions

Old Exams

• Exam 1 2017: blank | solutions
• Exam 2 2017: blank | solutions
• Exam 3 2017: blank | solutions
• Continuum mechanics: blank
• Index notation problems: blank
• Chaos problem: blank
• Equations

  For Hava

  • Jupyter notebook for Taylor problems 1.50/1.51 (I used this as an in-class exercise early in the course): html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for the Lorenz attractor (This is the model of atmospheric convection that really sparked interest in field of computational nonlinear dynamics in the 1960's: html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for computational approach to Foucault pendlum (complement to Taylor Sec. 9.9): html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for computational approach to gyroscope (complement to Taylor Secs. 9.9 and 9.10): html, ipynb
  • Jupyter notebook for generation of figures in Taylor Chapter 12 (chaos): html, ipynb
  • solutions source

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