Lecture Notes for Phys2210, Sp11
Below are the lecture notes for the each class. These are "chatty" summaries following (closely, but not exactly!) the text and course. It's an alternative, but not a replacement, for your book.
Please report any serious typos in the notes to steven.pollock at colorado.edu - thanks!
Week 1 (Taylor Ch 1) |
Taylor Ch 2, including Boas 8.1, Boas 2.12 (Hyperbolic functions) and Boas pp. 24-26 (Taylor Series)
Here is the Tutorial on air drag we did in class Thursday 1/20
Here is the MMA Tutorial we did in class Tues 1/25
Here is the MMA notebook I showed in class Thurs 1/27 |
Taylor Ch 3
Here is the space shuttle video I showed (sorry, they start with an ad).
And, the humorous "relative velocity" video too. (Super slo-mo is right at the very end) |
Taylor Ch 4 (including Boas 6.4-8)
Here is the line integral exercise we did in class Tues 2/08
Here is the gradient/contour map Tutorial we did in class Tues 2/15 |
Gravity lecture notes |
Taylor Ch 5 (including Boas Ch 2 and 8.5) (part 1 of 2)
Taylor Ch 5 continued (This is "Fourier" stuff - including Boas Ch 7). (This is part 2 of 2)
Here is the SHM puzzle we did in class Tues 3/08
Here is the Tutorial on phase diagrams for SHM we did in class Tues 3/08
For the homework: Here is the Lissajous mathematica code, (and a Lissajous sim) from Thurs 3/10
Here is another MMA notebook, to look at damped harmonic motion. (Tu 3/15)
Here is the Tutorial on damped SHM from Tu 3/15
Here is the Tutorial on Driven SHM from Tu 3/29
Here is the short followup Tutorial for Th 3/31, for those who finished the previous one.
Here is the Fourier Phet sim, and a Fourier Tutorial, from Tu 4/5
Here is
my Fourier mathematica notebook from Th 4/7
Here are my powerpoints about Fourier's trick (as an analogy with vectors) from Th 4/7 |
Partial Differential Equations (including Boas Ch 13.1-4) (part 1 of 2)
An in-class quick activity on Separation of Variables (Thurs 4/14)
And more PDE notes, focused on Fourier Transforms. (Boas 7.12) (part 2 of 2)
Here is the Mathematica notebook on Separation of variables(Tues 4/19) and
the powerpoints from that lecture solving the generic 2D rectangular Laplace's equation situation.
Here is a little Mathematica notebook with a class example of Fourier transforms (Thu 4/21) |
Here are the lecture notes for the last week of classes (Taylor Ch 9, mostly 9.3 and 9.5) |
Physics 2210 home page.