Homework

• Homework set 5, due Nov. 1. Due date changed. However, honing your skills on the Lagragian mechanics will prepare you well for the midterm. Very basic Lagrangian problems will feature in the midterm (see the practice exam). No Hamiltonian (or effective potential defined through Hamiltonian) will be in the midterm, though. Correction: L10 --> LN 8, in problem 2.

• Homework set 4, due Oct. 20 (solutions).

  • Problem 2: added the info that $a > 0$ is a constant too.

• Homework set 3, due Oct. 13 (solutions).

  • Grade stats: 31 ± 11 out of 50, max 49, min 4.

  • Problem 6: n = integer → n = non-zero integer.

  • Problem 5(a): "stable" added.  5(b): "Show" → "Prove" and "indeed" added.

• Homework set 2, due Oct. 6 (solutions).

  • Grade stats: 32 ± 14 out of 60, max 60, min 10.

  • Correction: sols, 1(a), line 3 of solution, at end: $\left(\begin{smallmatrix} 1\\ 0\\ 0 \end{smallmatrix}\right) \rightarrow \left(\begin{smallmatrix} 0\\ 0\\ 1 \end{smallmatrix}\right)$. — Sam, 4:49PM, Oct 10, 2011

  • Due date corrected (Thursday). One clause added to 3(c) ("that does not involve t").

• Homework set 1, due Sept. 29 (solutions).

  • Grade stats: 44 ± 5.3 out of 50, max 50, min 25.

  • Page 2: figure positions fixed. — Sam, 4:40PM, Oct 03, 2011

  • Problem 4 removed (will reappear in HW 2). — Sam, 4:24PM, Sep 22, 2011

Exam

• Practice exam for the midterm. The midterm will cover everything that we covered through Oct. 20's class. (solutions)

  • Two unnecessary "squares" removed from the last page of the solutions. — Sam, 2:32PM, Oct 25, 2011

• Midterm page 1 (cover sheet).

  • Minor update -- some sentences added/tweaked. Nothing major. — Sam, 10:31AM, Oct 26, 2011

Quiz

• Quiz 3, Potential and small oscillation (solutions).

  • Grade stats: 4.8 ± 2.7 out of 10, max 10, min 0.

• Quiz 2, Perturbation, Oct 13 (solutions).

  • Grade stats: 6.9 ± 2.8 out of 10, max 10, min 0.

• Quiz 1, Introduction, Oct 7 (solutions).

  • Grade stats: 7.2 ± 2.1 out of 10, max 10, min 1.

• Quiz 0, Phys-Math Questionnaire (solutions). (Not a real quiz — not graded.)