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

Course Schedule

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Week Date Lectures Homework Problem Sessions Text suggestions
1
Monday
1/17/2022
        
Tuesday
1/18/2022
 Newton's laws Lecture 1 (Online links here)     K&K Chapter 1 (Taylor Ch 1)
Thursday
1/20/2022
 One-dimensional particle dynamics Lecture 2  (Online links here)

HW 1 out  

Solutions A B

   K&K Chapter 2/3 (Taylor Ch 1)
2
Monday
1/24/2022
 FIRST DISCUSSION!!!!  

Discussion 1

Solution

  
Tuesday
1/25/2022
 1D continued, drag, v-dep. forces Lecture 3     K&K Chapter 3 (Taylor Ch 2)
Thursday
1/27/2022
 2D particle dynamics Lecture 4

HW 2 out

Solutions A B

   Taylor Ch 2
3
Monday
1/31/2022
    

Discussion 2

Solution

  
Tuesday
2/1/2022
 1D rocket motion, conservative forces in 3D Lecture 5     K&K Chapter 4
Thursday
2/3/2022

Central force motion, conserved angular momentum Lecture 6

Online Due to Snowpocalypse: (Online links here) Notes from my ipad

Lecture recording

HW 3 out

Solutions A B

   K&K Chapter 10 (Taylor Ch 8)
4
Monday
2/7/2022
    

Discussion 3 

Solution

  
Tuesday
2/8/2022
 Gravitation Lecture 7      
Thursday
2/10/2022
 Orbital motion, Kepler's Laws. Lecture 8

HW 3 in

HW 4 out

   K&K Chapter 10 (Taylor Ch 8)
5
Monday
2/14/2022
    

Discussion 4 

Solution

  
Tuesday
2/15/2022
 Orbital motion continued  Lecture 9      
Thursday
2/17/2022
  Tides Lecture 10        
6
Monday
2/21/2022
    

Discussion 5 

Solution

  
Tuesday
2/22/2022
 NO LECTURE

HW 4 in

Solutions

    
Thursday
2/24/2022
 Midterm 1, in class Sample exam Solution Formula sheet  Exam take II    
7
Monday
2/28/2022
    

Discussion 6

Solution

  
Tuesday
3/1/2022
 Linear Oscillators: Simple harmonic oscillators Lecture 12     Taylor Chapter 5 (K&K Chapter 11)
Thursday
3/3/2022
 Linear Oscillators: damping; initial conditions Lecture 13

HW 5 out

Solutions A B

   Taylor Chapter 5 (K&K Chapter 11)
8
Monday
3/7/2022
    

Discussion 7

Solution

  
Tuesday
3/8/2022
 Forced vibrations Lecture 14     Taylor Chapter 5 (K&K Chapter 11)
Thursday
3/10/2022
 Resonance, Fourier series Lecture 15

HW6 out

Solutions A B

   Taylor Chapter 5 (K&K Chapter 11)
9 3/12/2022 Spring break
10
Monday
3/21/2022
    

Discussion 8

Solution

  
Tuesday
3/22/2022
 Fourier series continued, solutions for periodic driving Lecture 16       
Thursday
3/24/2022
 Impulse response function, Greens function and fourier transform Lecture 17

HW 6 in

HW 7 out

Solutions A B

    
11
Monday
3/28/2022
    

Discussion 9

Solution

  
Tuesday
3/29/2022
 Begin non-inertial reference frames Lecture 18     Taylor Chapter 9 (K&K Ch 9)
Thursday
3/31/2022
 Dynamics in non-inertial reference frames Lecture 19

HW 7 in

HW 8 out

Solutions

   Taylor Chapter 9 (K&K Ch 9)
12
Monday
4/4/2022
    

Discussion 10

Solution

  
Tuesday
4/5/2022
 Coriolis force Lecture 20      
Thursday
4/7/2022
 Begin calculus of variations: Lecture 21     Taylor Chapter 9 (K&K Ch 9)
13
Monday
4/11/2022
    

Discussion 11 

Solution

  
Tuesday
4/12/2022

No lecture Planar Rigid Body motion notes

 HW 8 in   Taylor Chapter 6
Thursday
4/14/2022

Midterm 2, in class formula sheet sample exam solutions

Midterm II solutions

      
14
Monday
4/18/2022
    

Discussion 12

Solution

  
Tuesday
4/19/2022
 Calculus of variations continued Lecture 22

HW 9 out

Solutions

   Taylor Chapter 6
Thursday
4/21/2022
 Lagrangian mechanics Lecture 23     Taylor Chapter 7
15
Monday
4/25/2022
    

Discussion 13

Solution

  
Tuesday
4/26/2022
 Lagrangian mechanics continued Lecture 24

 

HW 10 out

Solutions

   Taylor Chapter 7
Thursday
4/28/2022
 Lagrangian mechanics continued Lecture 25     Taylor Chapter 7
16
Monday
5/2/2022
    

Discussion 14 

Solution

  
Tuesday
5/3/2022
 Noether's theorem  Lecture 26      
Thursday
5/5/2022
 Reading Day
 

Friday

5/13/2022

 Final exam, 7-10 pm Sample Final Solution