Lecture Notes

Lecture notes will be posted here, after each lecture.

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Review; the path to quantum mechanics (week of 4/27) - Apr. 26, 2020
Bonus lecture: Nonlinear dynamics and chaos - Apr. 19, 2020
Examples (week of 4/20) - Apr. 19, 2020
Hamiltonian mechanics (week of 4/20) - Apr. 19, 2020
Examples (week of 4/13) - Apr. 12, 2020
More coupled oscillators; nonlinear diff. eq. (week of 4/13) - Apr. 12, 2020
Examples (week of 4/6) - Apr. 6, 2020
Finishing rotation; intro to coupled oscillators (week of 4/6) - Apr. 5, 2020
Examples (week of 3/30) - Mar. 31, 2020
More rotation of rigid bodies (week of 3/30) - Mar. 29, 2020
Examples (week of 3/16) - Mar. 15, 2020
Rotation of rigid bodies (week of 3/16) - Mar. 15, 2020
Angular Momentum of Rigid Objects - Mar. 11, 2020
Review of Matrix Algebra - Mar. 9, 2020
Perturbation Theory - Mar. 6, 2020
The Earth as a Rotating Frame - Mar. 4, 2020
Tutorial on Rotating Frames - Mar. 2, 2020
Rotating Frames, Continued - Feb. 28, 2020
Rotating Frames of Reference - Feb. 26, 2020
Orbital Loose Ends; Frames with Linear Acceleration - Feb. 24, 2020
Orbital Speed and Examples - Feb. 21, 2020
Tutorial on Orbital Motion - Feb. 19, 2020
Unbound Orbits and Orbital Energy - Feb. 17, 2020
Orbital Motion and Orbital Period - Feb. 14, 2020
Lagrangian review, equation of orbit - Feb. 12, 2020
Effective Potential and the Equation of Orbit - Feb. 10, 2020
Finishing the Two-Body Central Force Problem - Feb. 7, 2020
Time Translation and Central Forces - Feb. 5, 2020
Conserved Quantities - Feb. 3, 2020
Equilibrium points - Jan. 31, 2020
Tutorial on Lagrangian mechanics - Jan. 29, 2020
More examples in Lagrangian mechanics - Jan. 27, 2020
Generalized Coordinates - Jan. 24, 2020
Lagrangian Mechanics - Jan. 22, 2020
Calculus of Variations - Jan. 17, 2020
The brachistochrone problem - Jan. 15, 2020
Introduction - Jan. 13, 2020