The following table contains the homework problem assignments and reading assignments for Classical Mechanics for the
spring, 2022 semester. The problems are taken from Classical Mechanics: A Modern Perspective
by Barger and Olsson (B&O) and locally developed ones that are listed below.
Some of the reading assignments are from Physics for Scientists and Engineers by Knight (Kn).
| Jan 10 | Read the syllabus; Chap 1 - 1,2 in B&O; Read Section 6.5 in Kn; install Mathematica, instructions here; text Chap 1, lecture. | Jan 12 | Chap 1 - 7,9 in B&O, report on chisovFalling.nb due Wednesday, Jan 19; read guidance on lab writeups and see a sample here; HW on 1D free fall - 1,2,3,4. |
| Jan 17 | MLK Day - no class. | Jan 19 | HW on oscillators - 1,2; Chap 1 - 14,15; Read Kn 15.1-15.4,15.7. |
| Jan 24 | HW on oscillators - 3,4,5 | Jan 26 | HW on oscillators - 6; Chap 1 - 16,17; lab 'Wiggling Cantilevers' due on Wed, Feb 2. |
| Jan 31 | HW on oscillators - 7; Chap 2 - 2; Read Kn 10.1-10.5 | Feb 2 | HW on Molecular Vibrations - 1,2,3,4,5,7; hand in 5 and 7 on Monday Feb 9; see guidance on doing homework; Chap 2 - 7,8 |
| Feb 7 | Chap 2 - 19,20; HW on Molecular Vibrations - 6; HW on the Pendulum - 1,2,4,5; Read Kn 15.5-15.6. | Feb 9 | Read Sections 3.1-3.2 B&O; Chap 3 - 1,3,5a; HW on the Pendulum - 3; Test in one week. |
| Feb 14 | Read Sections 3.1-3.2 B&O; Chap 3 - 7a. | Feb 16 | Test 1 |
| Feb 21 | HW on Normal Modes - 1,2 | Feb 23 | HW on Normal Modes - 3,9, hand in no. 9 Wed, Mar 2; see guidance on homework write-ups; B&O Chap 3 - 5b. |
| Feb 28 | HW on Normal Modes - 4,5,9; no. 9 due Wed, Mar 2; Chap 3 - 5.c; see eigen2.nb for Mathematica tools. | Mar 2 | HW on Normal Modes - 6,7; Chap 3 - 5.d, 5.e, 7.b. |
| Mar 7 | Spring Break | Mar 9 | Spring Break |
| Mar 14 | HW on Collisions - 1,2; B&O Chap 4 - 9,10; Hand in B&O Chap 4 - 9 with a proton energy of 5 MeV and an angle of 40 deg on Wed, Mar 16. See instructions here; | Mar 16 | HW on Collisions - 3,4,5; B&O Chap 4 - 11,12. |
| Mar 21 | Read B&O Section 6.1; Kn 13.1-13.6; B&O Chap 6 - 1,3,4; HW on Rutherford Scattering - 1; Read this | Mar 23 | Read B&O Section 5.1; &O Chap 5 - 3; HW on Rutherford Scattering - 2,3; |
| Mar 28 | Test 2 | Mar 30 | Chap 5 - 1,5; HW on Rutherford Scattering - 4. |
| Apr 4 | report on Rutherford Orbits due Wednesday, April 6; B&O Chap 5 - 6,7; HW on Rutherford Scattering - 5,6. | Apr 6 | B&O Chap 5 - 7,11; HW on Rutherford Scattering - 7,8. |
| Apr 11 | Report on Nuclear size lab due Monday, Apr 18; read guidance on lab writeups and see a sample here; HW on Rutherford Scattering - 13,14. | Apr 13 | B&O Chap 6 - 3,4,5; Read Kn 16.1-16.3, 16.9. |
| Apr 18 | B&O Chap 6 - 6,8; HW on Extrasolar planets - 1,2,3. | Apr 20 | HW on Extrasolar planets - 4,5. |
Local homework sets.
| 1D Free Fall | Oscillators |
| Molecular Vibrations | The Pendulum |
| Normal Modes | Collisions |
| Rutherford Scattering | Newtonian Cosmology |
| Extra Solar Planets |