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Lecture Room

Monroe 156 (Note Change!)

Class Times

Monday, Wednesday & Friday, 11:30-12:20

Textbook

Marion and Thornton, Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, Fourth Edition (Saunders College, 1995)

Course Webpage

http://www.loyno.edu/~jtwhelan/A300/ (this page)

Instructor

Dr. John T. Whelan

464 Monroe, 865-3641

john.whelan@astro.rit.edu

Office Hours

MW 15:00-16:00, W 10:00-11:00

Syllabus

Lecture Notes

• Chapter One -- Mathematical Preliminaries
• Chapter Two -- Newtonian Mechanics
• Chapter Three -- Linear Oscillations
  • Exercises on Fourier Series
• Chapter Five -- Gravitation
• Chapter Six -- Calculus of Variations

Homework Assignments

• Problem Set 1 -- Due 2002 September 4 (accepted thru 2002 September 6)
• Problem Set 2 -- Due 2002 September 13 (accepted thru 2002 September 18) (Note--revised 2002 September 10)
• Problem Set 3 -- Due 2002 September 23 (accepted thru 2002 September 30)
• Problem Set 4 -- Due 2002 October 2 (accepted thru 2002 October 7)
• Problem Set 5 -- Due 2002 October 16 (accepted thru 2002 October 16)
• Problem Set 6 -- Due 2002 October 23 (accepted thru 2002 October 23)
• Problem Set 7 -- Due 2002 November 13 (accepted thru 2002 November 15)
• Problem Set 8 -- Due 2002 November 22 (accepted thru 2002 November 25)
• Problem Set 9 -- Due 2002 December 2