| Office Hours: | Tuesday 3:00-4:00pm, Thursday 3:00-4:00pm, or by appointment. |
| Lectures: | MWF, 3:00-3:50pm, Room 1420 BPS |
| Required Text: | Classical Mechanics, John R. Taylor |
| Homework: | There will be 14 homework assignments (due on Wednesdays, except on Fridays in weeks with hour exams on Monday) at the beginning of class. The lowest homework score will be dropped when calculating your final grade. You are welcome to consult with your peers when doing your homework, but you are responsible for completing the problems yourself. Copying someone else's homework is not educational and not acceptable. Please present your homework solutions in a logical and readable form -- it's good practice for you and a kindness to the grader! |
| Exams: | There will be 3 midterm exams and a final. All exams are closed book, with no electronic devices allowed. The final exam will be cumulative. |
| Grades: | Homework 25%
Exam #1 15% Exam #2 15% Exam #3 15% Final Exam 30% |
| Course Outline: | We will cover chapters 1-8 of the textbook. Some of the subjects we cover will be familiar to you from your introductory physics classes, but we will study them at a higher level of mathematical sophistication. Some topics, such as Lagrange's equations, will probably be completely new to you. |