PHYS 325 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Course Schedule

Lectures will take place on Tuesdays and Thursday from 12:00 - 13:20 CDT in 151 Loomis.

Discussion sessions will take place on Mondays as assigned in the section information. Discussion problem sets shall be submitted at the end of the discussion session, and no later than Tuesday at noon CDT via gradescope.

Homework sets will become available on Thursdays after class, starting in week 2. They are due on the following Thursday before 11:55pm CDT and they have to be submitted online via gradescope.

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Week	Date	Lectures	Homework	Discussions	Text suggestions
1	Monday 08/22/2022			No discussions
	Tuesday 08/23/2022	Course policies L1: Newton's laws			Taylor Ch. 1
	Thursday 08/25/2022	L2: One-dimensional particle dynamics	No homework		Taylor Ch. 1
2	Monday 08/29/2022	FIRST DISCUSSION		Discussion 1 solutions
	Tuesday 08/30/2022	L3: 1D dynamics position and time dependent forces			Taylor Ch. 2
	Thursday 09/01/2022	L4: drag and velocity dependent forces 2D particle dynamics	HW 1 out Solution 1A Solution 1B Solution 1C		Taylor Ch 2
3	Monday 09/05/2022	No classes (Labour Day)		No discussions
	Tuesday 09/06/2022	L5: 2D particle dynamics 1D rocket motion			K&K Ch. 4
	Thursday 09/08/2022	L6: Conservative forces, Central force motion, angular momentum conservation	HW 1 due HW 2 out Solution HW 2A Solution HW 2B Solution HW 2C		K&K Ch. 10 (Taylor Ch 8)
4	Monday 09/12/2022			Discussion 2 solutions
	Tuesday 09/13/2022	L7: Gravitation
	Thursday 09/15/2022	L8: Gravitation	HW 2 due HW 3 out Solution HW 3A Solution HW 3B Solution HW 3C		Taylor Ch 8
5	Monday 09/19/2022			Discussion 3 solutions
	Tuesday 09/20/2022	L9: Orbital motion
	Thursday 09/22/2022	L10: Orbital motion Kepler's laws	HW 3 due No new HW
6	Monday 09/26/2022			Discussion 4: Practice exam 1 Solutions
	Tuesday 09/27/2022	L11: Kepler's laws Tides
	Thursday 09/29/2022	Midterm Exam 1	HW 4 out Solution HW 4A Solution HW 4B Solution HW 4C
7	Monday 10/03/2022			Discussion 5 solutions
	Tuesday 10/04/2022	Tides L12: Simple harmonic oscillators			Taylor Ch. 5 (K&K Ch. 11)
	Thursday 10/06/2022	L13: Simple harmonic oscillators damped oscillators	HW 4 due HW 5 out Solution HW 5A Solution HW 5B Solution HW 5C		Taylor Ch. 5
8	Monday 10/10/2022			Discussion 6 solutions
	Tuesday 10/11/2022	L14: damped oscillators Forced vibrations			Taylor Ch. 5 (K&K Ch. 11)
	Thursday 10/13/2022	L15: Forced vibrations	HW 5 due HW 6 out Solution HW 6A Solution HW 6B Solution HW 6C		Taylor Ch. 5
9	Monday 10/17/2022			Discussion 7 solutions
	Tuesday 10/18/2022	L16: Resonance, Fourier series
	Thursday 10/20/2022	L17: periodic driving	HW 6 due HW 7 out Solution HW 7A Solution HW 7B Solution HW 7C
10	Monday 10/24/2022			Discussion 8 solutions
	Tuesday 10/25/2022	L18: Impulse response function, Greens function and fourier transform			Taylor Ch. 9
	Thursday 10/27/2022	L19: non-inertial reference frames	HW 7 due HW 8 out Solution HW 8A Solution HW 8B Solution HW 8C		Taylor Ch. 9
11	Monday 10/31/2022			Discussion 9 solutions
	Tuesday 11/01/2022	L20: Dynamics in non-inertial reference frames
	Thursday 11/03/2022	L21: Coriolis forces	HW 8 due No new HW		Taylor Chapter 9 (K&K Ch 9)
12	Monday 11/07/2022			Discussion 10
	Tuesday 11/08/2022	No classes (Election Day)
	Thursday 11/10/2022	Midterm Exam 2	HW 9 out Solution HW 9A Solution HW 9B Solution HW 9C
13	Monday 11/14/2022			Discussion 11 Solution Discussion 11
	Tuesday 11/15/2022	L22: Coriolis forces			Taylor Ch. 6
	Thursday 11/17/2022	L23: Calculus of variations	HW 9 due HW 10 out Solution HW 10A Solution HW 10B Solution HW 10C		Taylor Ch. 7
14	Monday 11/21/2022	Fall Break - no classes
	Tuesday 11/22/2022	Fall Break - no classes
	Thursday 11/24/2022	Fall Break - no classes
15	Monday 11/28/2022			Discussion 12 Solution Discussion 12
	Tuesday 11/29/2022	L24: Lagrangian mechanics I			Taylor Ch. 7
	Thursday 12/01/2022	L25: Lagrangian mechanics continued Lagrangian mechanics II continued	HW 10 due		Taylor Ch. 7
16	Monday 12/05/2022			Discussion 13
	Tuesday 12/06/2022	L26: Noether's theorem
	Thursday 12/08/2022	Reading Day
	FINALs week 12/09/2022--12/17/2022	Final exam: 13 December 2022 8:00-11:00am CST 151 Loomis

   

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