| Wednesday 9/2 | Beginning of semester | |
| Monday 9/7 | No class -- Labor Day | |
| Friday 9/11 | Homework 1 due at beginning of class | Calculus of Variations |
| Friday 9/18 | Homework 2 due at beginning of class | Lagrangian Mechanics |
| Friday 9/25 | Homework 3 due at beginning of class | Dynamics in 1 dimension |
| Friday 10/2 | Homework 4 due at beginning of class | Small oscillations |
| Monday 10/5 | Hour Exam #1 | |
| Friday 10/9 | Homework 5 due at beginning of class | Small oscillations |
| Friday 10/16 | Homework 6 due at beginning of class | Rigid bodies |
| Friday 10/23 | Homework 7 due at beginning of class | Rigid bodies |
| Friday 10/30 | Homework 8 due at beginning of class | Rigid bodies; Non-inertial reference frames |
| Mon 11/2 | Hour Exam #2 | |
| Friday 11/6 | Homework 9 due at beginning of class | Non-inertial reference frames |
| Friday 11/13 | Homework 10 due at beginning of class | Gravity and central forces |
| Friday 11/20 | Homework 11 due at beginning of class | Hamiltonian mechanics |
| Mon 11/23 | Hour Exam #3 | |
| Wednesday 11/25 | No class -- phy422/820 holiday | |
| Friday 11/27 | No class -- university holiday | |
| Friday 12/4 | Homework 12 due at beginning of class | Some standard Graduate Mechanics Exam problems |
| Friday 12/11 | Homework 13 due at beginning of class | Continuous systems |
| Friday 12/18 10:00am-12:00 | Final Exam (in regular classroom) |