Physics 303
Mechanics
Fall, 2015
Bard College
- Instructor: Hal Haggard
- Office: 112 Rose
- Office Hours: Mon 5-6pm & Thurs 5-6pm
- Email: haggard "usual at" bard.edu
- Phone: +1-845-758-7302
- Class Meeting: 106 Hegeman
- Time: MWF 10:10-11:30am
- Text: J. R. Taylor, Classical Mechanics University Science Books (2005)
A full syllabus can be downloaded here.
This includes a tentative list of topics and schedule.
The course web site
(this site) will be used to post homework assignments and any other useful materials.
Homework
assignments
- Homework 1, due Thursday, September 3rd at 6pm: pdf.
- Homework 2, due Thursday, September 10th at 6pm: pdf.
- Homework 3, due Friday, September 18th in class: pdf.
- Homework 4, due Friday, September 25th in class: pdf.
- Homework 5, due Friday, October 2nd in class: pdf.
- Homework 6, due Friday, October 23rd in class: pdf.
- Homework 7, due Friday, October 30th in class: pdf.
- Homework 8, due Friday, November 6th in class: pdf.
- Homework 9, due Friday, November 20th in class: pdf.
- Homework 10, due Monday, November 30th in class: pdf.
- Homework 11, due Friday, December 4th in class: pdf.
- Homework 12, due Friday, December 11th in class: pdf.
Lecture notes are
my handwritten notes that I prepare for
lecture. I don't guarantee that they will be identical to what is
presented in class, but they should be pretty close usually. The notes also include things that I wasn't able to cover in the lecture. When I wasn't able to cover everything that I hoped to, the next day's lecture notes have significant overlap with the previous day's.
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Discussion of Monday, October 19, 2015.
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Supplemental Notes and Links
- Simulation of the Zeeman catastrophe machine,
link. (The link to the actual simulation is just below the figure at the top of the page and is a bit hard to see.)