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
   Taylor Ch. 1
2
Monday
01/27/2025
 FIRST DISCUSSION   Discussion 1

Solution 1		  
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		   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		   K&K Ch. 4 (Taylor Ch 4 & 8)
4
Monday
02/10/2025
     Discussion 3  
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		   Taylor Ch 8
5
Monday
02/17/2025
     Discussion 4  
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		   K&K Ch. 10
(Taylor Ch 8)
6
Monday
02/24/2025
     Discussion 5  
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  
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		   Taylor Ch. 5
(K&K Ch. 11)
8
Monday
03/10/2025
     Discussion 7  
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  
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  
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