| Week | Date | Topics covered |
| 1 | Aug 23- 27 |
chapt 1: Newtons laws: I, II, III, inertial frame no HW due |
| 2 | Aug 30- 3 |
chapt 2: projectile motion, linear/quadratic air
restistance, forces F(v) HW#1 due friday Sept 3: Last day to drop |
| 3 | Sept 6- 10 | chapt 3: conservation of momentum, rocket, center of mass,
angular momentum, HW#2 due friday |
| 4 | Sept 13- 17 | chapt 4: kinetic energy, work, potential energy, conservative
force, time-dependent potential HW#3 due friday |
| 5 | Sept 20- 24 | chapt 5: simple harmonic oscillator, damped HO, driven
HO HW#4 due friday |
| 6 | Sept 27- 1 |
chapt 6: calculus of variation, Euler-Lagrange equation and
applications no HW due this week EXAM1: Friday, Oct 1 |
| 7 | Oct 4- 8 |
chapt 7: Lagrange equations, with and without constraints,
examples HW#5 due friday |
| 8 | Oct 11-15 | chapt 7: Lagrange equations, generalized coordinates,
conservation laws HW#6 due friday |
| 9 | Oct 18-22 | chapt 13: Hamiltonian mechanics, Hamilton's equation,
ignorable coordinates HW#7 due friday |
| 10 | Oct 25-29 |
chapt 8: central force: CM and relative coordinates, 1/r
potential, Kepler orbits, change of orbits HW#8 due friday Oct 29: Last day to withdraw |
| 11 | Nov 1-5 | chapt 14: collision, Rutherford scattering, cross sections no HW due this week EXAM2: Friday, Nov 5 |
| 12 | Nov 8-12 |
chapt 9: accelerating frame, rotational frame, Newton II,
(Coriolis force, Foucault pendulum) no HW due this week |
| 13 | Nov 15-19 | chapt 10: rotation about fixed/any axis, inertia tensor,
principal axes HW #9 due this TUESDAY |
| 14 | Nov 22-26 | chapt 10: precession of top, Euler angles no HW due this week Thanksgiving break: Nov 24-26 |
| 15 | Nov 29-3 |
chapt 10: spinning top HW #10 due this TUESDAY Dec 3: Last day of instruction |
| 16 | Dec 7-11 | FINAL: Wednesday, Dec 8, 1-3pm Good success!! |