| Wednesday 8/31 | Beginning of semester | |
| Monday 9/5 | No class -- Labor Day | |
| Friday 9/9 | Homework 1 due at beginning of class | Calculus of Variations (Taylor Chapter 6) |
| Friday 9/16 | Homework 2 due at beginning of class | Lagrangian Mechanics (Taylor Chapter 7) |
| Friday 9/23 | Homework 3 due at beginning of class | Dynamics in 1 dimension (Taylor Chapter 12) |
| Friday 9/30 | Homework 4 due at beginning of class | Small oscillations (Taylor Chapter 5) |
| Monday 10/3 | Hour Exam #1 | |
| Friday 10/7 | Homework 5 due at beginning of class | Small oscillations |
| Friday 10/14 | Homework 6 due at beginning of class | Rigid bodies (Taylor Chapter 10) |
| Friday 10/21 | Homework 7 due at beginning of class | Rigid bodies (Taylor Chapter 10) |
| Friday 10/28 | Homework 8 due at beginning of class | Rigid bodies (Taylor Chapter 10) |
| Mon 10/31 | Hour Exam #2 | |
| Friday 11/4 | Homework 9 due at beginning of class | Non-inertial reference frames (Taylor Chapter 9) |
| Friday 11/11 | Homework 10 due at beginning of class | Inertial reference frames (Taylor Chapter 9) |
| Friday 11/18 | Homework 11 due at beginning of class | Hamiltonian mechanics (Taylor Chapter 13) |
| Mon 11/21 | Hour Exam #3 | |
| Wednesday 11/23 | No class -- phy422/820 holiday | |
| Friday 11/25 | No class -- university holiday | |
| Friday 12/2 | Homework 12 due at beginning of class | Some standard Graduate Mechanics Exam problems |
| Friday 12/9 | Homework 13 due at beginning of class | Continuous systems (Taylor Chapter 16) |
| Friday 12/16 10:00am-1:00pm | Final Exam |