PHYSICS 321 : CLASSICAL MECHANICS I

Instructor: Scott Pratt
prattsc@msu.edu
Cyclotron Lab 2133
(517) 908-7460

Lecture:
Mon./Wed./Fri. 3:00-3:50 PM
#1420 BPS

Office Hours:
Monday 4-5:00 PM, #2133 NSCL
or immediately after class

HW Grader:
 Twymun Safford
saffordt@msu.edu

Scott's Photo

SYLLABUS
ANNOUNCEMENTS:

GRADING AND CALENDAR:

Homework

10%

Weekly Friday Quizzes(lowest quiz dropped)

15%
First Midterm (Monday, Feb. 18)
 20%
2nd Midterm (Monday. Mar. 25)
 20%
Final Exam (Wed. May. 1, 5:45-7:45 PM)
Biochemistry Building 101
 35%
Extra Credit Assignment (Due Friday April 26)
 10%

SCALE: 4.0(90%), 3.5(80%), 3.0(70%), 2.5(60%), 2.0(50%), 1.5(40%), 1.0(30%).

SUGGESTED TEXT: John R. Taylor, Classical Mechanics (Univ. Sci. Books 2005)
Marion's text should also be fine. Lecture notes are succinct, so a text should be useful.
LECTURE NOTES:
Posted lecture notes are not meant to be a replacement for textbook. BEWARE! These are living documents and will change without notice.
HOMEWORK: (due at beginning of class)
may change as semester progresses -- so be careful about working ahead. Problems can be found in Lecture Notes. Solutions are posted after due date.
Set 1, due Fri. Jan. 11
    Chapter 1 (1-11)
Set 2, due Fri. Jan. 18
    Chapter 2 (1-6)
Set 3, due Fri. Jan. 25
    Chapter 2 (7-10)
Set 4, due Fri. Feb. 1
    Chapter 2 (11-12), Chapter 3 (1-4)
Set 5, due Fri. Feb. 8
    Chapter 3 (5-7)
Set 6, due Fri. Feb. 15
    Chapter 3 (8-9)
--- Fri. Feb. 22 (No HW) ---
Set 7, due Fri. Mar. 1
    Chapter 4 (1-3)
Set 8, due Fri. Mar. 15
    Chapter 4 (4-6)
Set 9, due Fri. Mar. 22
    Chapter 4 (7-11)
--- Fri. Mar. 29 (No HW) ---
Set 10, due Fri. Apr. 5
    Chapter 5 (1-3)
Set 11, due Fri. Apr. 12
    Chapter 6 (1-3)
Set 12, due Fri. Apr. 19
    Chapter 6 (4-7)
REVIEW PROBLEMS FOR FINAL:
Each group of students should compose a problem, provide a written solution in PDF format, and present solution in class. Problem should be different than those previously seen and be appropriate for final exam. Presentation grade will be part of quiz grade.
PRESENTATIONS:
DATE STUDENTS MATERIAL SOLUTIONS
Fri. April 19
 Fush,Pathak,Watts,Willinger
Velocity-dependent force
 pdf
Fri. April 19
 Buhl,Lemense,Landry
 Trajectory from potentials
 pdf
Fri. April 19
 Pype,Noorily,Oklejas
 Momentum Conservation
 pdf
Fri. April 19
 Hossi,Dellarovere,Wasik,Nguyen
 Damped oscillator
 pdf
Mon. April 22
 Clifford,Miller,Wu,Zimbo
 Sinusoidally driven oscillator
 pdf
Mon. April 22
 Verboncoeur,Tu,Holstad
 Oscillator with periodic force
 pdf
Mon. April 22
 Steinhorst,Bott,Connor,Gunter
 Oscillator with Delta Function Force
 pdf
Mon. April 22
 Dziubinski,Raju,Cona
 Orbits, small radial oscillations pdf
Wed. April 24
 Arnold,Govan,Weisenberger.Bran
 Scattering, total cross section pdf
Wed. April 24
 Mcintyre,Sun,Blythe,Durnell
 Scattering, differential cross section
 pdf
Wed. April 24
 Johns,Fike,Stewart,Former
 Coriolis force, dropped object
 pdf
Wed. April 24
 Weiss,Przybylski,Olguin,Sheehan
 Lagrangian
 pdf
Fri. April 26
 Adkins,Guan ,Jia
 Lagrangian
 pdf
Fri. April 26
 Zitzelberger,Sundberg,Ghazali
Lagrangian with normal modes pdf
Fri. April 26
 Zobel,Yuan,Demastri,Willison
 Lagrangian with angular momentum
 pdf
Fri. April 26
 Watson,Ginnett,Nalamwar
 Symmetries and conservation laws
 pdf

QUIZZES (2019)  (with solutions):
     Quiz 1, Jan. 11    
    Quiz 2 , Jan. 18
    Quiz 3, Jan. 25
    Quiz 4, Feb. 1
    Quiz 5, Feb. 8
    Quiz 6, Feb. 15
    Quiz 7, Feb. 22
    Quiz 8, Mar. 1
    Quiz 9, Mar. 15
    Quiz 10, Mar. 22
    Quiz 11a and 11b, Apr. 3/5
    Quiz 12, Apr. 12
QUIZZES (2018 Fall)  (with solutions):
    Quiz 1, Sep. 7
    Quiz 2, Sep. 14
    Quiz 3, Sep. 21
    Quiz 4, Sep. 28
    Quiz 5, Oct. 3/5
    Quiz 6, Oct. 19
    Quiz 7, Oct. 26
    Quiz 8, Nov. 2
    Quiz 9, Quiz9b, Nov. 7/9
 QUIZZES (2018 Spring)  (with solutions):
    Quiz1, January 12
    Quiz 2, Jan. 19&21
    Quiz 3, Feb. 9
    Quiz 4, (program) Feb. 14/16
    Quiz 5, Feb 23
    Quiz 6, Mar 1
    Quiz 7, (program) April 6
    Quiz 8, April 13
QUIZZES (2015)  (with solutions):
    Quiz 1, September 16
    Quiz 2, September 23
    Quiz 3, September 30
    Quiz 4, October 14
    Quiz 5, October 21
    Quiz 6, October 28
    Quiz 7, November 4
QUIZZES (2014) (with solutions):
    Quiz 1, September 3
    Quiz 2, September 10
    Quiz 3, September 17
    Quiz 4, September 24
    Quiz 5, October 1
    In-Class Exercise, October 13
    Quiz 6, October 20
    In-Class Exercise, October 24
    Quiz 7, October 29
EXAMS:
 First Midterm (2019 Spring), with solutions
Second Midterm (2019 Spring), with solutions
Final Exam (2019 Spring), with solutions
First Midterm (2018 Fall), with solutions (part A)
First Midterm (2018 Fall), with solutions (part B)
Second Midterm (2018 Fall), with solutions
Final Exam (2018 Fall),  with solutions
First Midterm (2018 Spring), with solutions
Second Midterm (2018 Spring), with solutions
Third Midterm (2018 Spring), with solutions
Final Exam (2018 Spring), with solutions
Practice for First Midterm
(with solutions)
First Midterm (2014), with solutions
First Midterm (2015), with solutions
Practice for Second Midterm
(with solutions)
Second Midterm (2014), with solutions
Second Midterm (2015), with solutions
Final Exam (2014) with solutions
Final Exam (2015) with solutions

SOME PROGRAMS
sample.cc, a simple skeleton C++ starter program
sample.py, a simple skeleton python starter program
fastfall.cc, finds fastest trajectory for sliding from (0,y0) to (X,0)
sample_plot.py, sample for plotting with matplotlib, which is a python library
sample_plot.dat, data used by sample_plot.py
To run a c++ program, open a terminal window, then compile and run:
  % c++ -o sample sample.cc
  % sample

To run a python program from the terminal window:
  % python sample.py