Welcome to Phys 105, 2011!

You can come to meet with me in my office any time, today, until 5 PM.
The official office hours will start from the coming Monday.
The poll is still in progress, please participate if you haven't already. The poll will close within a day or so.
Note that Thu 4PM is now changed to Thu 3PM. While Thu 4PM got many initial votes, I realized belatedly that it conflicts with the department colloquium. So, I had to move it to Thu 3PM. I know that Thu 3PM overlaps with 116C. In conclusion, I think Thu 3PM or 4PM is not a good choice. However, Tue 4PM seems like a great choice.

What is this course about?

Classical mechanics is a beautifully ripe subject, albeit with hidden surprises. In this course, we will get a complete overview of classical mechanics. We will learn Newtonian and Lagrangian views of classical mechanics. We will cover some basic topics such as linear systems and the central force problem, and also not so basic topics such as non-linear dynamics (chaos), and many particle systems (field theory). If time allows (very unlikely), we may cover the special theory of relativity as well.

This web site will become fuller as the course proceeds. In the mean time, you might want to check out the last year’s course web site.

Here is the syllabus for this year. It will get updated soon with office hours.

Note that there are three important links above ("Lectures+", "Homework+" and "Forum") -- at this time, only Homework+ is functional (HW01 is there),but other links will become operational soon.

Remember that you are the one!

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- * The poll is still in progress, <<ln(http://doodle.com/vqvi3aztkyhdgtuf,please participate)>> if you haven't already.
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 * The poll is still in progress, <<ln(http://doodle.com/vqvi3aztkyhdgtuf,please participate)>> if you haven't already.  The poll will close within a day or so.