PHYS 501 CLASSICAL MECHANICS
Fall 2006
SYLLABUS
COURSE DESCRIPTION: This is one of the required courses for the M. S. degree in Physics. The objectives of the course is to establish a comprehensive foundation in classical mechanics and to develop necessary mathematical and computational skills that should serve a solid background for other fields of Physics, in particular Quantum mechanics and statistical mechanics. The students are assumed to know intermediate level classical mechanics and have working knowledge in calculus, vector calculus, linear algebra and differential equations.
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Sep. 18 |
1.1, 1.2 |
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1.3, 1.4 |
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2 |
Sep. 25 |
1.5, 1.6 |
HW I |
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2.1, 2.2 |
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3 |
Oct. 2 |
2.3, 2.4, 2.5 |
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2.6, 2.7 |
HW II |
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4 |
Oct. 9 |
3.1, 3.2, 3.3 |
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3.4, 3.5, 3.6 |
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5 |
Oct. 16 |
3.7, 3.8, 3.9 |
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3.10 |
HW III |
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6 |
Oct. 23 |
3.11, 3.12 |
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Midterm I |
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7 |
Oct. 30 |
4.1, 4.2 |
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4.3, 4.4, 4.5 |
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8 |
Nov. 6 |
4.6, 4.7 |
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4.8, 4.9, 4.10 |
HW IV |
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9 |
Nov. 13 |
5.1, 5.2, 5.3 |
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5.4, 5.5, 5.6 |
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10 |
Nov. 20 |
5.7 |
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5.8, 5.9 |
HW V |
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11 |
Nov. 27 |
6.1, 6.2 |
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6.3, 6.4 |
HW VI |
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12 |
Dec. 4 |
6.5, 6.6 |
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Midterm II |
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13 |
Dec. 11 |
8.1, 8.2 |
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8.3, 8.5, 8.6 |
HW VII |
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14 |
Dec. 18 |
9.1, 9.2 |
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9.3, 9.4 |
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15 |
Dec. 25 |
9.5, 9.6 |
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9.7, 9.8, 9.9 |
HW VIII |
Instructor: Özgür E. Müstecaplıoğlu
Office: SCI-155
Phone: (212) 338 1424
E-Mail: omustecap@ku.edu.tr
Lectures: Monday,
Tuesday, 14:00-15:15 SCI B37
Office Hours: Tuesday,
Web Page: http://home.ku.edu.tr/~omustecap/phys501.shtml
Textbook: H. Goldstein, C. Poole, J. Safko, “Classical Mechanics”, Third Edition, (Addison Wesley, 2002).
Course Grade:
Course Content: