PHYS 326 Fall 2019
PHYS 326 :: Physics Illinois :: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Schedule
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| 1 |
Monday
8/26/2019 |
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Tuesday
8/27/2019 |
Begin Part 1: Many degree-of-freedom vibrations Simple Harmonic Oscillator review |
Taylor Chapter 5 | |||
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Wednesday
8/28/2019 |
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Thursday
8/29/2019 |
2 DOF vibrations Lecture 2 |
Taylor Chapter 11 T&M Chapter 12 | Discussion 1 | ||
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Friday
8/30/2019 |
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| 2 |
Monday
9/2/2019 |
Labor Day Holiday -- no office hours | |||
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Tuesday
9/3/2019 |
(Weakly) coupled pendula, beats, Lecture 3 |
Taylor 11.3, T&M 12.3 | |||
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Wednesday
9/4/2019 |
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Thursday
9/5/2019 |
The general problem; many dof vibrations, the quadratic lagrangian Lecture 4 |
Taylor 11.5, 11.6 | Discussion 2 | ||
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Friday
9/6/2019 |
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| 3 |
Monday
9/9/2019 |
Regular office hours, Loomis 464 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
9/10/2019 |
Linear algebra of the eigenmodes, normal coords Lecture 5 |
T&M 12.5, 12.6 Taylor 11.7 | |||
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Wednesday
9/11/2019 |
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Thursday
9/12/2019 |
Normal coords, symmetries Lecture 6 |
Discussion 3 | |||
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Friday
9/13/2019 |
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| 4 |
Monday
9/16/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 464 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
9/17/2019 |
Symmetries continued Lecture 7 Notes |
Homework 3 due Solutions A B |
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Wednesday
9/18/2019 |
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Thursday
9/19/2019 |
Symmetries continued: infinite crystal chain Lecture 8 |
Discussion 4 | |||
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Friday
9/20/2019 |
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| 5 |
Monday
9/23/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
9/24/2019 |
Forced motion of many DOF systems Lecture 9 |
Taylor 12.9 | |||
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Wednesday
9/25/2019 |
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Thursday
9/26/2019 |
Begin part II: non-linear dynamics and chaos Lecture 10 |
Taylor 12.1-12.6 | Discussion 5 | ||
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Friday
9/27/2019 |
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| 6 |
Monday
9/30/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
10/1/2019 |
Lecture 11 |
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Wednesday
10/2/2019 |
Extra office hours | ||||
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Thursday
10/3/2019 |
Midterm I, in-class. One sheet of notes permitted, writing on only one side. Covers material from Part 1, including lectures 1-9, HW 1-5 |
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Friday
10/4/2019 |
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| 7 |
Monday
10/7/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
10/8/2019 |
Begin part III: rigid body motion Lecture 12 |
Taylor Chapter 10 | |||
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Wednesday
10/9/2019 |
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Thursday
10/10/2019 |
Planar rigid body motion, the inertia tensor Lecture 13 |
Taylor 10.1-10.4 | Discussion 6 | ||
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Friday
10/11/2019 |
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| 8 |
Monday
10/14/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
10/15/2019 |
Principle axes of inertial, Torque-free Euler equations Lecture 14 |
Taylor 10.5-10.8 | |||
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Wednesday
10/16/2019 |
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Thursday
10/17/2019 |
Euler eqns cont. Rotation and orientation matrices Lecture 15 |
Taylor 10.8 | Discussion 7 | ||
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Friday
10/18/2019 |
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| 9 |
Monday
10/21/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
10/22/2019 |
Rotation and orientation matrices continued, Euler angles Lecture 16 |
Taylor 10.9 | |||
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Wednesday
10/23/2019 |
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Thursday
10/24/2019 |
Analysis of the heavy top Lecture 17 |
Taylor 10.10 | Discussion 8 | ||
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Friday
10/25/2019 |
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| 10 |
Monday
10/28/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
10/29/2019 |
Begin Part IV: Hamiltonian mechanics |
Taylor Chapter 13 | Homework 8 due Solutions A B |
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Wednesday
10/30/2019 |
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Thursday
10/31/2019 |
Hailtonian mechanics continued, Liouville theorem Lecture 19 |
Taylor Chapter 13 | Discussion 9 | ||
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Friday
11/1/2019 |
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| 11 |
Monday
11/4/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
11/5/2019 |
Begin Part V: Continuum mechanics. Waves on a string |
Taylor 16.1 16.2 |
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Wednesday
11/6/2019 |
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Thursday
11/7/2019 |
Effects of boundarys Lecture 21 |
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Friday
11/8/2019 |
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| 12 |
Monday
11/11/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
11/12/2019 |
Orthogonality of eigenmodes, greens function Lecture 22 |
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Wednesday
11/13/2019 |
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Thursday
11/14/2019 |
Midterm II, in-class Last semester's exam Exam 2 solution |
Discussion 11 | |||
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Friday
11/15/2019 |
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| 13 |
Monday
11/18/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
11/19/2019 |
Waves in 2D Lecture 23 |
Homework 10 due Solutions A B |
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Wednesday
11/20/2019 |
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Thursday
11/21/2019 |
Stress and strain Lecture 24 |
Taylor 16.5-16.8 | Discussion 12 | ||
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Friday
11/22/2019 |
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| 14 |
Monday
11/25/2019 |
Fall break | |||
| 15 |
Monday
12/2/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
12/3/2019 |
Hooke's law and waves in solids Lecture 25 |
Taylor 16.9-16.11 | Homework 11 due Solutions A B |
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Wednesday
12/4/2019 |
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Thursday
12/5/2019 |
Begin part VI: Fluids Lecture 26 |
Taylor 16.12 | Discussion 13 | ||
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Friday
12/6/2019 |
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Monday
12/9/2019 |
Office hours, Loomis 204 3-8 pm | |||
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Tuesday
12/10/2019 |
Navier stokes equations and laminar flow Lecture 27 |
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Wednesday
12/11/2019 |
Extra office hours, Loomis 204 6-8 pm. | ||||
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Thursday
12/12/2019 |
Reading Day | Extra office hours in Discussion time and place. | |||
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Friday
12/13/2019 |
Final Exam 8 am - 11 am, Loomis 144 |
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