Lecture Notes

Lecture notes will be posted here, after each lecture.

If you spot any issues, anything missing, or you have trouble reading the files, please e-mail Prof. Neil.

• Final exam review - Dec. 7, 2020
• Fourier transforms and the delta function - Dec. 4, 2020
• More Fourier series - Dec. 2, 2020
• Examples of Fourier series - Nov. 30, 2020
• Fourier series, continued - Nov. 25, 2020
• Fourier series - Nov. 23, 2020
• Driven oscillators and resonance - Nov. 20, 2020
• The driven, damped oscillator - Nov. 18, 2020
• Damped harmonic oscillators - Nov. 16, 2020
• Harmonic oscillators and complex numbers - Nov. 15, 2020
• Effective theories and dark matter - Nov. 2, 2020
• Gauss's law and gravity - Oct. 30, 2020
• Tutorial: Gravitational potentials - Oct. 28, 2020
• Gravitational potential - Oct. 26, 2020
• Calculating gravitational fields - Oct. 23, 2020
• Central forces - Oct. 21, 2020
• Potential energy in one dimension - Oct. 19, 2020
• Equipotentials - Oct. 16, 2020
• Conservative Forces and Potentials - Oct. 14, 2020
• Tutorial: Line integrals - Oct. 12, 2020
• Line integrals - Oct. 9, 2020
• Intro to work and energy - Oct. 7, 2020
• Exam #1 review - Oct. 5, 2020
• More rockets and angular momentum - Oct. 2, 2020
• Rocket propulsion - Sep. 30, 2020
• Finding the center of mass - Sep. 28, 2020
• Center of mass - Sep. 25, 2020
• Momentum and conservation laws - Sep. 23, 2020
• Quadratic air resistance, continued - Sep. 21, 2020
• Quadratic air resistance - Sep. 18, 2020
• Taylor series and mechanics - Sep. 16, 2020
• Projectiles and power series - Sep. 14, 2020
• Motion with linear drag - Sep. 11, 2020
• Intro to air resistance - Sep. 9, 2020
• Ordinary differential equations - Sep. 4, 2020
• Newton's laws in curvilinear coordinates - Sep. 2, 2020
• More on Newton's laws; reference frames - Aug. 31, 2020
• Curvilinear coordinates; Newton's laws - Aug. 28, 2020
• Space and Time - Aug. 26, 2020
• Welcome and Introduction - Aug. 24, 2020