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

Course Schedule

Lectures will take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 13:00 - 14:20 Central US in 151 Loomis.

Discussion sessions will take place on Mondays as assigned in the section information.

Homework sets will become available on Thursdays after class, starting in week 1. They are due on the following Thursday before 11:55pm Central US and they have to be submitted online via gradescope.

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Week	Date	Lectures	Homework	Discussions	Text suggestions
1	Monday 01/20/2025	Martin Luther King Jr. Day -- no classes
	Tuesday 01/21/2025	Course policies L1: Newton's laws			Taylor Ch. 1
	Thursday 01/23/2025	L2: 1-dimensional particle dynamics	HW 1 out Solutions		Taylor Ch. 1
2	Monday 01/27/2025	FIRST DISCUSSION		Discussion 1 Solution
	Tuesday 01/28/2025	L3: Position and time dependent forces Simple harmonic oscillator			Taylor Ch. 2
	Thursday 01/30/2025	L4: drag and velocity dependent forces	HW 1 due HW 2 out Solutions		Taylor Ch 2
3	Monday 02/03/2025			Discussion 2 Solution
	Tuesday 02/04/2025	L5: 1D rocket motion			Taylor Ch 2
	Thursday 02/06/2025	L6: 2D particle dynamics	HW 2 due HW 3 out Solutions		K&K Ch. 4 (Taylor Ch 4 & 8)
4	Monday 02/10/2025			Discussion 3 Solution
	Tuesday 02/11/2025	L7: 2D particle dynamics			K&K Ch. 10 (Taylor Ch 8)
	Thursday 02/13/2025	L8: Conservative forces energy conservation	HW 3 due HW 4 out Solutions		Taylor Ch 8
5	Monday 02/17/2025			Discussion 4 Solution
	Tuesday 02/18/2025	L9: Central force motion angular momentum conservation			K&K Ch. 10 (Taylor Ch 8)
	Thursday 02/20/2025	L10: Gravitational force and gravitational potential	HW 4 due HW 5 out Solutions		K&K Ch. 10 (Taylor Ch 8)
6	Monday 02/24/2025			Discussion 5 Solution
	Tuesday 02/25/2025	L11: Orbital motion I			K&K Ch. 10 (Taylor Ch 8)
	Thursday 02/27/2025	L12: Orbital motion II Kepler's laws	HW 5 due No new HW
7	Monday 03/03/2025			Discussion 6 Solution
	Tuesday 03/04/2025	L13: Simple harmonic oscillators			Taylor Ch. 5 (K&K Ch. 11)
	Thursday 03/06/2025	Midterm Exam 1 Practice exam 1	No HW due HW 6 out Solutions		Taylor Ch. 5 (K&K Ch. 11)
8	Monday 03/10/2025			Discussion 7 Solution
	Tuesday 03/11/2025	L14: Damped oscillators			Taylor Ch. 5 (K&K Ch. 11)
	Thursday 03/13/2025	L15: Forced vibrations	HW 6 due HW 7 out		Taylor Ch. 5 (K&K Ch. 11)
	03/15/2025 - 03/23/2025	Spring Break
9	Monday 03/24/2025			Discussion 8 Solution
	Tuesday 03/25/2025	L16: Harmonic driving and resonance
	Thursday 03/27/2025	L17: Periodic driving	HW 7 due HW 8 out
10	Monday 03/31/2025			Discussion 9 Solution
	Tuesday 04/01/2025	L18: Impulse response function and Greens function			Taylor Chapter 9 (K&K Ch 9)
	Thursday 04/03/2025	L19: Fourier transformation	HW 8 due HW 9 out		Taylor Chapter 9 (K&K Ch 9)
11	Monday 04/07/2025			Discussion 10
	Tuesday 04/08/2025	L20: Non-inertial reference frames
	Thursday 04/10/2025	L21: Dynamics in non-inertial reference frames	HW 9 due No new HW
12	Monday 04/14/2025			Discussion 11
	Tuesday 04/15/2025	L22: Coriolis forces			Taylor Ch. 6
	Thursday 04/17/2025	Midterm Exam 2 Practice exam 2	No HW due HW 10 out		Taylor Ch. 6
13	Monday 04/21/2025			Discussion 12
	Tuesday 04/22/2025	L23: Calculus of variations			Taylor Ch. 7
	Thursday 04/24/2025	L24: Calculus of variations	HW 10 due HW 11 out		Taylor Ch. 7
14	Monday 04/28/2025			Discussion 13
	Tuesday 04/29/2025	L25: Lagrangian mechanics			Taylor Ch. 7
	Thursday 05/01/2025	L26: Lagrangian mechanics	HW 11 due		Taylor Ch. 7
15	Monday 05/05/2025			Discussion 14
	Tuesday 05/06/2025	L27: Noether's theorem			Taylor Ch. 7
	Thursday 05/08/2025	Reading Day
	FINALs' week 05/09/2025 - 05/15/2025	Final exam: TBA Practice final exam