Exam

• Final exam: The final exam is one week later. It is on Monday Dec 15 (see the syllabus).

  • Some example problems are listed here.

  • There will not be any review session for the final exam. But, here are some review materials.

  • On Friday, Dec 12, I will have open office hours from 9 AM through 2 PM. Also, you can use the online forum to discuss any challenging issues.
  • Two crib sheets of US letter size paper filled on both sides are allowed for the final exam.

• Midterm: The midterm on Nov 4 will cover materials up to Lecture note 9. However, materials in lecture notes 8 and 9 will be treated very lightly.

  • The exam and the solutions. The score distribution and the full grading rubrics are available here.

  • The review session is 3-5 PM on Nov 2, Sunday, in room PSB 114.

    • The audio recording and the photos of the blackboard are available for those of you who could not make it to the session.

  • Last year’s midterm should be reviewed. It should be regarded as a practice exam for this year. (However, you can ignore problem 2.) (solutions included)

  • Last year’s pre-exam can be reviewed as well. (solutions)

  • There will not be any quiz on this Thursday (Oct 30), nor will there be any new homework given out on that day. A new homework will be posted on Nov 4 and will be due Nov 13.

Quiz

• Quiz 3,4, due Dec 9: Rolling without slipping

• Quiz 2, due noon, Oct 24: Newton’s laws (with solutions)

  • Score stats: 8.7 ± 2.5 (out of 10; more info incl. the grading rubric).—2:24AM, Oct 28, 2014

  • Change: “and $h_1$” → “given $h_1$” in part (b).—2:24PM, Oct 23, 2014

  • Must be submitted to me at my office (ISB 249) 1-5PM, Oct 23, or 9AM-12PM, Oct 24, or can be emailed to me by noon, Oct 24.

• Quiz 1, due Oct 21: A perturbation problem (with solutions)

  • Score stats: 7.8 ± 3.0 (out of 10).—6:55AM, Oct 22, 2014

  • Correction: Seconed line: exam → quiz.—1:00PM, Oct 16, 2014

Homework

• Homework 8, due Dec 11: Coupled Oscillators

• Homework 7, due Dec 4: Gravity, Many particles (with solutions)

• Homework 6, due 1 PM, Nov 21 (ISB 249): Effective potential, Constraint, Poisson bracket (with solutions)

  • Change: Due date.—1:21AM, Nov 18, 2014

• Homework 5, due Nov 13: Principle of least action, Lagrangian, Hamiltonian (with solutions)

  • Correction: Problem 2 (a),(b) solutions: One sign error (part (a)) and one trigonometric error (part (b)), corrected.—3:25PM, Nov 15, 2014

  • Addition: Footnote 1. Also, Ferma → Fermat at one place.—8:37AM, Nov 12, 2014

  • Correction: Tuesday → Thursday for the due date.—4:02PM, Nov 06, 2014

• Homework 4, due Oct 30: Small oscillations (with solutions)

  • Score stats: 72 ± 16 (out of 90).

  • Correction: Problem 4, 2(d), solution, line 4: $U''(a) \rightarrow U''(b)$ (Thanks, EH!).—8:19AM, Nov 04, 2014

  • Addition: Problem 3(g), the definition of $Q$ is explicitly given.—12:30PM, Oct 23, 2014

• Homework 3, due Oct 23: Perturbation, Circular motion (with solutions)

  • Score stats: 49 ± 15 (out of 60).

  • Change: Problem 1(a) became an extra-credit problem.—12:50PM, Oct 21, 2014

• Homework 2, due Oct 16: Newton’s laws (with solutions)

  • Score stats: 45 ± 22 (out of 75).—2:55PM, Oct 21, 2014

  • Correction: Problem 2: oppositive → opposite.—7:12PM, Oct 22, 2014

  • Change: Problem 2(e): $v_0/v_\infty \rightarrow v/v_\infty$ (Thanks to KD, for pointing out this error!)—5:47AM, Oct 15, 2014

• Homework 1, due Oct 9: Intro (matrix, vector, perturbation,…) (with solutions)

  • Score stats: 61 ± 8 (out of 70).—12:52PM, Oct 16, 2014

  • Change: Problem 4(a): $\sqrt{1-x} \rightarrow \sqrt{2-x}$.—11:37AM, Oct 03, 2014