This is the course page for City College Course PHYS 351, Mechanics, in the Fall 2024 semester
The course syllabus is here: Syllabus
About Projects: Project Guide
For Homework submissions, please make one single pdf with your work and submit via Blackboard. Please use the naming convention: PHYS35100-HWx-LASTNAME-FIRSTNAME.pdf (replace x with the HW #.) Make sure any code is shared so it can be run and looked at. Here is an example. Homework submitted after the due date will not receive credit.
The exam and homework schedule is subject to change, but this represents the most likely dates for those items.
| Date | Subject (& pdf) | Book Sections | Slides | In class | HW | Other | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 28 | Intro [ pdf ] | [CM: Ch. 1] | Slides | ✍ | HW 0 | Born, Classical Mechanics | |
| Sep 2 | |||||||
| Sep 4 | 1d Motion/Drag [ pdf ] | [CM: Ch. 2] | Slides | ✍ | HW 1 (sols) | Life at Low R | |
| Sep 9 | 2d Motion/Drag [ pdf ] | [CM: Ch. 2] | Slides | ✍ | On Motion in Resisting Medium | ||
| Sep 11 | Coords [ pdf & Conserv Review pdf ] | [CM: Ch. 1 & 3,4] | Slides & Slides | ✍ | HW 1 Due | ||
| Sep 16 | Numerical Methods [pdf ] | Quiz ( sols) | HW 2 (sols) | ||||
| Sep 18 | Oscillations [ pdf ] | [CM: Ch. 5] | Slides | ✍ | |||
| Sep 23 | Oscillations (cont'd) | Slides | ✍ | ||||
| Sep 25 | Oscillations (cont'd) | Slides | ✍ | HW 2 Due | AFM | ||
| Sep 30 | Phase Plots[pdf] | Slides | Quiz( sols) | ||||
| Oct 2 | |||||||
| Oct 7 | Calc of Variations [pdf] | [CM: Ch. 6] | Slides | ✍ | Old MT1(sols) | ||
| Oct 9 | MT1(sols) | ||||||
| Oct 14 | |||||||
| Oct 15 | Lagrangian Mech[pdf] | [CM: Ch. 7] | Slides | ||||
| Oct 16 | Lagrangians | ||||||
| Oct 21 | Lagrangian Part 2[pdf] | Slides | ✍ | HW 3 [sols] | |||
| Oct 23 | Lagrangian | ||||||
| Oct 28 | Lagrangian | Quiz 3 (sols) | |||||
| Oct 30 | Orbits [pdf] | Slides | HW 3 Due | ||||
| Nov 4 | Newton - Ellipse Orbit [ pdf] | ✍ | |||||
| Nov 6 | Central Forces [pdf] | [CM: Ch 8] | Slides | HW 4 [sols] | |||
| Nov 11 | Central Forces [pdf] | [CM: Ch 8] | Slides | ✍ | |||
| Nov 13 | Special Orbits [pdf] | [CM: Ch 8] | Slides | Ellipse Math | |||
| Nov 18 | HW 4 Due | ||||||
| Nov 20 | MT 2 (sols) | ||||||
| Nov 25 | Accelerating Frames [pdf] | [CM: Ch 9] | Slides | ||||
| Nov 27 | |||||||
| Dec 2 | |||||||
| Dec 4 | Foucault Pendulum | HW 5 Due | |||||
| Dec 9 | Coupled Oscillators[pdf] | [CM: Ch 11] | Slides | ||||
| Dec 11 | Special Relativity[pdf] | [CM: Ch 151] | Slides | HW 5 & Projects Due | |||
| Dec 16 | Final Exam | 10:30-12:45 | About the final |
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