The following table contains the homework problem assignments and reading assignments for Classical Mechanics for the
fall, 2025 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).
| Aug 25 | Read the syllabus and Chap 1 in B&O; Do Chap 1 - 1,2 in B&O; Read Section 6.5 in Kn; install Mathematica, instructions here. | Aug 27 | Chap 1 - 7,9 in B&O, HW on 1D free fall - 1,2. | Aug 29 | HW on 1D free fall - 3; report on chisovFalling.nb due Wed, Sep 3; read guidance on lab writeups and see a sample here. |
| Sep 1 | HW on oscillators - 1,2; Chap 1 - 14,15; Read Kn 15.1-15.4,15.7. | Sep 3 | HW on oscillators - 3; Chap 1 - 16; Report on chisovFalling.nb due this day Wed, Sep 3. | Sep 5 | HW on oscillators - 4,5. |
| Sep 8 | Chap 1 - 17; lab report on 'Wiggling Cantilevers' due Fri, Sep 12 | Sep 10 | HW on oscillators - 6,7. | Sep 12 | Read Kn 10.1-10.5, 25.2-25.4; Molecular Vibrations - 1,2,3,4. |
| Sep 15 | Molecular Vibrations - 5,7,9; hand in 5,7,9 on Fri, Sep 19; Chap 2 - 2,7,8 | -->Sep17 | Molecular Vibrations HW - 8; The Pendulum HW - 1,2,3. | Sep19 | The Pendulum HW - 4,5; Chap 3 - 1,3. |
| Sep 22 | Sep 24 | Sep 26 | |||
| Sep 29 | Oct 1 | Test 1 | Oct 3 | ||
| Oct 6 | Oct 8 | Oct 10 | |||
| Oct 13 | Oct 15 | Oct 17 | |||
| Oct 20 | Spring Break | Oct 22 | Spring Break | Oct 24 | Spring Break |
| Oct 27 | Oct 29 | Oct 31 | |||
| Nov 3 | Nov 5 | Nov 7 | |||
| Nov 10 | Test 2 | Nov 12 | Nov 14 | ||
| Nov 17 | Nov 19 | Nov 21 | |||
| Nov 24 | Nov 26 | Nov 28 | |||
| Dec 1 | Dec 3 | Dec 5 |
Local homework sets.
| 1D Free Fall | Oscillators |
| Molecular Vibrations | The Pendulum |
| Normal Modes | Collisions |
| Rutherford Scattering | Newtonian Cosmology |
| Extra Solar Planets |