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Lecture Notes

  • Lecture 15, Dec 2: Scattering

    • Changes: The diagram in page 4 and the paragraph following it, improved.—11:21AM, Dec 01, 2014

  • Lecture 14, Nov 25: The Kepler problem, Many-body system

  • Lecture 13, Nov 20: Central force and the Kepler problem

  • Lecture 12, Nov 18: Gravity

    • Addition: A new paragraph in page 1.—12:59PM, Nov 19, 2014

  • Lecture 11, Nov 13: Effective potential, Constraints, Gravity

    • Addition: Section 11.3.—1:11AM, Nov 18, 2014

    • Correction: Missing $m$ restored in line 6 of page 3 (thanks KW!).—1:11AM, Nov 18, 2014

    • Correction: In page 2, item 4: $T_{eff} \rightarrow K_{eff}$.—7:24PM, Nov 14, 2014

    • Changes: A diagram, added in Section 11.2.1. More discussion, added in Section 11.2.2. Line → surface in Section 11.3.5. Most equations are numbered.—11:49AM, Nov 10, 2014

  • Lecture 10, Nov 6: Symmetry, Hamiltonian

    • Correction: Page 8, paragraph 2, line 5: $p + dq \rightarrow q + dq$.—12:23PM, Nov 09, 2014

    • Addition: Sections 10.4 and 10.5.—2:03PM, Nov 06, 2014

  • Lecture 9, Oct 30: The Lagrangian way, Symmetry, Conservation

    • Addition: Page 13, a new paragraph at the end of this page.—2:21PM, Nov 06, 2014

    • Correction: Page 6, $x$ and $X$ equations had errors (thanks, ZA!). Now corrected. Also, $v_0$ is kept all the way through in the calculation, as it should be, but a comment is added right after the equation of motion.—10:00AM, Nov 06, 2014

    • Addition: Footnotes 4 and 5. Also, $C$ is specificed explicitly as a non-zero constant (pages 4 and 5).—12:03PM, Nov 05, 2014

  • Lecture 8, Oct 28: Principle of least action

    • Addition: Some highlighted words in Section 8.3.—9:13AM, Oct 28, 2014

    • Correction: Page 4, line 4, the middle term: the incorrect factor $\frac{1}{2}$ is removed (thanks, ZA!).—9:57AM, Oct 27, 2014

  • Lecture 7, Oct 22: SHO, driven

    • Change: The last section, improved (I think).—9:53AM, Oct 29, 2014

    • Addition: A section on qualtiy factor is added at the end (thanks to CK for his nice question during class, which prompted my addition here).—1:41PM, Oct 28, 2014

    • Correction: Page 10, just above Eq 7.35: period K → period T.—9:09AM, Oct 21, 2014

  • Lecture 6, Oct 21: SHO, free or damped

    • Additions: Example 6.3.4 and plots.—5:32PM, Oct 20, 2014

  • Lecture 5, Oct 16: Conservation theorems, 1D motion

    • Addition, Correction: Footnotes 4 and 6 are new, and they reflect what we discussed in class. In the last bullet point of page 6, the last sentence was mathematically incorrect (while physically still very meaningful, if qualified a bit), and is removed. In principle, a saddle point can exist in one dimension in a mathematical sense, as we exemplified in class! At the end of the paragraph just after that bullet point “a saddle point” is added.—12:43PM, Oct 16, 2014

  • Lecture 4, Oct 14: UCM and SHM

    • Corrections, Addition: Right after Eq 4.14, $\omega$ was missing in $r \equiv A/\omega_c$. Right before Eq 4.15, $t$ was missing in $\sin (\omega_c t + \theta_0)$. Both corrected (thanks ZA!). Also, footnote 4 added.—6:21PM, Oct 18, 2014

    • Correction: Four lines below 4.12, at the end: $\ddot x$ → $\ddot y$. (Thanks, ZA!)—9:05AM, Oct 14, 2014

  • Lecture 3, Oct 9: Air resistance, Non-linear oscillator

    • Addition: Footnote 6.—8:46PM, Oct 30, 2014

    • Correction, Addition: Page 11, line 3: $\alpha \rightarrow O(\alpha)$ (thanks NR!). Footnotes 6 and 7 are added.—4:12PM, Oct 21, 2014

    • Addition: Eq. 3.6 is actually integrable, rather easily by hand, and the result is now added (Eq. 3.9).—9:41PM, Oct 09, 2014

    • Correction: Eqs. 3.25 (and Eq. 3.27) missed $t_a$ in the middle term. Now, this is fixed, thanks to KD (!), whose question led to this correction. Equation numbers in page 9 are cleaned up as well.—7:27AM, Oct 09, 2014

  • Lecture 2, Oct 7: Newton’s laws, air resistance

    • Change: The end of page 4: references to sections and examples are removed.—12:15PM, Oct 07, 2014

    • Correction: Page 3: Marge box, near the end: last year → 2010.—9:32AM, Oct 07, 2014

    • Change: The end of page 2: “the textbook” → “various books.”—6:38PM, Oct 06, 2014

  • Lecture 1, Oct 2: Intro: particles, dimensions, vectors, scalars, matrices…

    • Addition: A new footnote (1) regarding real and complex numbers.—12:31PM, Oct 17, 2014

    • Addition, change: A new footnote (3). $L \rightarrow O$ in line 2 of page 7.—12:52PM, Oct 02, 2014

    • Correction: Pages 6,7, in definition boxes of vector, scalar: linear → orthogonal.—9:38AM, Oct 02, 2014

Appendices

  • A3: Green’s function for SHO

  • A2: Essential trig identities

  • A1: Perturbation

    • Correction At the end, the case when $v_0$ is non-zero was discussed incorrectly in the Oct 3 version. Now, corrected.—9:25AM, Oct 05, 2014

    • Addition: Page 8, more physics discussion added at the end.—10:28AM, Oct 03, 2014

    • Correction, addition: Page 7, the last term in the third order solution had a wrong sign—now corrected. Page 8, discussion added about the exact solution.—9:30PM, Oct 02, 2014

    • Change: page 6, the first sentence and the equations of the example (A.2) were arranged in a slightly different way.—12:42PM, Oct 02, 2014