Lecture Notes

Lecture notes will be posted here, after each lecture.

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• Fourier series and Fourier transforms - Dec. 8, 2021
• Fourier series, continued - Dec. 6, 2021
• Fourier series - Dec. 3, 2021
• Driven oscillators and resonance - Dec. 1, 2021
• The damped driven oscillator - Nov. 29, 2021
• Damped harmonic oscillator, continued - Nov. 19, 2021
• Damped harmonic oscillator - Nov. 17, 2021
• Simple harmonic oscillators - Nov. 15, 2021
• Effective theory; dark matter - Nov. 12, 2021
• Exam #2 Review - Nov. 10, 2021
• Gauss's Law and Gravity - Nov. 8, 2021
• Gravitational potential, continued - Nov. 5, 2021
• Gravitational potential - Nov. 3, 2021
• Gravity fields of extended objects - Nov. 1, 2021
• More central forces and gravitation - Oct. 29, 2021
• Finishing 1-d systems; central forces - Oct. 27, 2021
• Energy and one-dimensional systems - Oct. 25, 2021
• Working with potential energy - Oct. 22, 2021
• Conservative forces and potentials - Oct. 20, 2021
• Line integrals, continued - Oct. 18, 2021
• Line integrals - Oct. 15, 2021
• Introduction to work and energy - Oct. 13, 2021
• Angular momentum - Oct. 11, 2021
• Rocket propulsion, continued - Oct. 8, 2021
• Exam #1 review - Oct. 6, 2021
• Rocket propulsion - Oct. 4, 2021
• Finding the center of mass - Oct. 1, 2021
• Center of mass - Sep. 29, 2021
• Applying conservation of momentum - Sep. 27, 2021
• Momentum conservation - Sep. 24, 2021
• Quadratic drag, continued - Sep. 22, 2021
• More series expansion; quadratic drag - Sep. 20, 2021
• Taylor series - Sep. 17, 2021
• Projectile motion and power series - Sep. 15, 2021
• Motion with linear drag - Sep. 13, 2021
• Microscopic origin of air resistance - Sep. 10, 2021
• First-order ODEs - Sep. 8, 2021
• Ordinary differential equations - Sep. 3, 2021
• Newton's Laws in curved coordinates - Sep. 1, 2021
• More Newton's Laws - Aug. 30, 2021
• Curvilinear Coordinates; Newton's Laws - Aug. 27, 2021
• Space and Time - Aug. 25, 2021
• Welcome and Introduction - Aug. 23, 2021
• - Jan. 1, 0001