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Physics 608 - Autumn 2007 Timeline

Rough timeline - recommended GPS sections to read are in [brackets]

Week 1: 28th, 30th Aug: [Lecture Notes: 01.ps, 01.pdf, 02.ps, 02.pdf]
Very brief history of CM. Free/constrained particle motion (1.1-1.3) [read 1.4-1.6].

Week 2: 4th, 6th Sep: (3rd holiday): [Lecture Notes: 03.ps, 03.pdf, 04.ps, 04.pdf ]
D'Alembert's Principle, Lagrange's Eqn and Applications (1.4-1.6) [read 2.1-2.5].

Week 3: 11th, 13th Sep: [Lecture Notes: 05.ps, 05.pdf, 06.ps, 06.pdf ]
Hamilton's Principle, Calculus of Variations, Lagrange Multipliers (2.1-2.5) [read 2.6,2.7]

Week 4: 18th, 20th Sep: [Lecture Notes: 07.ps, 07.pdf, 08.ps, 08.pdf ]
Lagrange Multipliers (2.1-2.5) and Conservation and Symmetry (2.6, 2.7) [read 3.1-3.7]

Week 5: 25th, 27th Sep: [Lecture Notes: 09.ps, 09.pdf, 10.ps, 10.pdf ]
Central Forces 3.1, Eqns of planetary motion (3.1-3.7) [read 3.8-3.12]

Week 6: 2nd, 4th Oct: [Lecture Notes: 11.ps, 11.pdf, 12.ps, 12.pdf ]
planetary motion (3.1-3.7), Scattering theory Intro (3.8-3.12) [read 4.1-4.4]

Week 7: 9th, 11th Oct: [Lecture Notes: 13.ps, 13.pdf, 14.ps, 14.pdf ]
Scattering theory and the 3-body problem (3.8-3.12), Test#1 review

Week 8: 16th, 18th Oct: [Lecture Notes: 15.ps, 15.pdf ]
Test#1, Rigid Body Matrix formulation, Rotations, Euler Angles(4.1-4.4), Euler Angles (4.1-4.4), [read 5.9, 6.1]

Week 9: 23rd, 25th Oct: [Lectures 16 and 17 cancelled due to wildfires] ]

Week 10: 30th Oct, 1st Nov: [Lecture Notes: 18.ps, 18.pdf, 19.ps, 19.pdf ]
Rotations, Coriolis Effect etc (4.4-4.10) Osc. - free (6.1-6.4) fixed (6.4-6.6) [read 8.1],

Week 11: 6th, 8th Nov: [Lecture Notes: 20.ps, 20.pdf, 21.ps, 21.pdf ]
Oscillators contd., Hamilton EofMo (8.1-8.3, 8.5, 8.6) [read 9.1]

Week 12: 13th*, 15th Nov: (12th holiday)]
Test#2 review, Canonical Transforms (9.1-9.3), Test#2,

Week 13: 20th Nov: (22nd-24th Thanksgiving): [Lecture Notes: 23.ps, 23.pdf ]
Canonical Transforms (9.1-9.3) [read 9.1-9.3]

Week 14: 27th, 29th Nov: [Lecture Notes: 24.ps, 24.pdf, 25.ps, 25.pdf ]
Contd 9.1-9.3, Poisson Brackets (9.5), Hamilton-Jacobi method (10.1), Action-Angle vars (10.2-10.6)

Week 15: 4th, 6th Dec: [Lecture Notes: 26.ps, 26.pdf ]
Classical Fun: Periodic Motion, Chaos, Poincare Maps, Fractals (bits of 11.1-11.9), Exam review

Week 16: 11th, 15th Dec:
Tuesday bonus review???, Saturday Final exam P-149 @ 10.30am-12.30pm.

* denotes probable homework due date... all this is subject to slip and slide.