Handwritten Notes#
These are the handwritten notes that I used when teaching this course in the Spring of 2024. These are not the same as those used in other semesters, but they formed the basis for the notes that are being written.
Week |
Topics |
Notes |
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1 |
Introduction to Classical Mechanics |
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2 |
Making Classical Models |
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3 |
Forces and Motion with Newton’s Laws |
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4 |
Conservation Laws |
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5 |
Potential Energy |
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6 |
Phase Space & Nonlinear Dynamics |
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7 |
Oscillations |
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8 |
SPRING BREAK |
NO NOTES |
9 |
Damped Driven Oscillations |
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10 |
Signal Analysis |
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11 |
Calculus of Variations |
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12 |
Lagrangian Mechanics |
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13 |
Examples of Lagrangian Mechanics |
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14 |
Examples of Lagrangian Mechanics |