Physics 351 Mechanics Fall 2019
Instructor: Joel Koplik
Office - Steinman 1M-19, phone - 650-8162, email - jkoplik@ccny.cuny.edu
Office hours: Wednesday and Thursday 2-3 or “anytime”
Course schedule: Monday and Wednesday 12 to 1:40 in MR 702
Prerequisites: Physics 207-8, Math 391
Co-requisite: Math 346 or 392
Grades based on: weekly problem sets: ¼
weekly quizzes ¼
two in-class exams: ¼
final exam ¼
Course outline:
Newton's Laws
Momentum and angular momentum
Energy and work
Lagrange's equations
Central force motion
Non-inertial references frames
Rotational motion
Coupled oscillations
Hamiltonian dynamics
Textbook: Classical Mechanics by J. R. Taylor (University Science Books, 2005)
Similar books:
G. R. Fowles and G. L. Cassiday, Analytical Mechanics, 7th ed. (Thompson - Brooks/Cole 2005)
T. W. B. Kibble and F. H. Berkshire, Classical Mechanics 5th ed. (World, 2004)
S. T. Thornton and J. N. Marion, Classical Dynamics 5th ed. (Thompson - Brooks/Cole 2004)
Books with many solved problems:
D. Morin. Introduction to Classical Mechanics (Cambridge, 2007)
D. A. Wells, Lagrangian Dynamics (Schaum’s Outline Series, McGraw-Hill, 1967)
More advanced books:
H. Goldstein, C. Poole and J. Safko, Classical Mechanics, 3rd ed. (Addison-Wesley, 2002)
L. D. Landau and E. M. Lifshitz, Analytical Dynamics 3rd ed. (Butterworth-Heinemann, 1976)
All additional course material (problem sets, solutions, supplements) will be posted on Blackboard.
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