For Wednesday, 9/7: Read through sec. 1.5 of Taylor.
Suggested practice problems 1.1, 1.5, 1.9, 1.13, 1.22(a).
For Friday, 9/9: Finish reading chapter 1.
Suggested practice problems 1.30, 1.35
Hand-in: 1.17, 1.37
For Monday, 9/12:
Suggested Practice: 1.41, 1.44, 1.47.
For Tuesday, 9/13:
Read through sec. 2.3
Suggested Practice: 2.3, 2.7, 2.17, 2.18.
Hand in: 1.29, 1.39, 1.45
For Wednesday, 9/14:
Read through sec. 2.4
Suggested Practice: 2.25, 2.26, 2.28
For Friday, 9/16:
Hand in: 2.8, 2.11
For Monday, 9/19:
Read through sec. 2.5
Suggested practice: 2.12, 2.17, 2.23.
For Tuesday, 9/20:
Read through the rest of chapter 2.
Suggested practice: 2.45. 2.46, 2.47
Hand in: 2.28, 2.31
For Wednesday, 9/21:
Suggested practice: 2.52
For Friday, 9/23:
Read through sec. 3.2.
Suggested practice: 3.1, 3.2.
Hand in: 2.41, 2.43, 2.55
To do 2.43 you may use NDSolve in Mathematica, or for extra points
write your own solver using a spreadsheet or a programming language
of your choice. In either case provide comments of what is
being done, either in a Mathematica notebook or in your
spreadsheet or program code, not merely unexplained calculations.
For Monday, 9/26:
Read through sec. 3.4
Suggested practice: 3.7, 3.11, 3.13
For Tuesday, 9/27:
Read through the rest of chapter 3.
Suggested practice:
3.17, 3.19 3.24, 3.25, 3.28, 3.30
Hand in: 3.14, 3.21
(Note:
in 3.21, do not calculate some non-sensical r,φ coordinates of the CM;
set up the integrals to calculate the cartesian cooordinates (x,y) of the CM. Polar coordinates are useful
only in evaluating the integrals. And prove the x CM coordinate actually has the value expected by symmetry considerations.)
For Wednesday, 9/28:
Read through sec. 4.1.
Suggested practice: 4.3
For Friday, 9/30:
Read through sec. 4.3.
Hand in: 3.32, 3.35, 3.37 [Deferred 'til Monday 10/3]
For Monday, 10/3:
Re-read through sec. 4.3
Suggested practice: 4.5, 4.13, 4.15.
Hand in: 3.32, 3.35, 3.37
For Tuesday, 10/4:
Read through sec. 4.4.
Suggested practice: 4.21, 4.23
For Wednesday, 10/5:
Read through sec. 4.7.
Suggested practice: 4.30, 4.31, 4.35
Hand in: 4.4, 4.8
For Friday, 10/7:
Read through sec. 4.10.
Suggested practice: 4.47, 4.48, 4.49
Hand in: 4.29, 4.36
For Monday, 10/10:
Practice: 4.42, 4.50.
For Tuesday, 10/11:
Read through sec. 6.1.
Suggested practice: 6.2
Hand in: 4.43, 4.48, 4.53
For Wednesday, 10/12:
Test 1, chapters 1-4. Mathematical information from the inside covers of the text will be provided. You may bring 8 equations of your own choosing to the test.
We will meet in MWAH 249 to have a little more working surface area.
For Friday, 10/14:
Read through sec. 6.2.
Suggested practice: 6.3
For Monday, 10/17:
Read sec. 6.3
Suggested practice: 6.9, 6.10
For Tuesday, 10/18:
Read through 6.4
Suggested practice: 6.26
For Wednesday, 10/19:
Read through sec. 6.4
Suggested practice: 6.20, 6.27
Hand in: 6.1, 6.7, 6.11.
For Friday, 10/21:
Read through sec. 7.1
Hand in: 6.16, 6.25 (Do the integral yourself using the hints.)
For Monday, 10/24:
Read sec. through sec. 7.2
Suggested practice: 7.1, 7.3, 7.5
For Tuesday, 10/25:
Read through sec. 7.3
Suggested practice: 7.12
For Wednesday, 10/26:
Read through sec. 7.5
Suggested practice: 7.17, 7.20, 7.22
Hand in: 7.8, 7.11.
For Friday, 10/28:
Read through sec. 7.8
Hand in: 7.27, 7.29
For Monday, 10/31:
Read sec. 7.10 (you may skip 7.9)
Suggested practice: 7.45, 7.51
For Tuesday, 11/1:
Read through sec. 8.3
Hand in: 7.34, 7.38c, 7.46
For Wednesday, 11/2:
Read through sec. 8.4
Suggested practice: 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6.
For Friday, 11/4:
Read through sec. 8.6
Hand in: 7.50, 8.3, 8.10.
For Monday, 11/7:
Read through sec. 8.7
Suggested practice: 8.5, 8.7, 8.15
For Tuesday, 11/8:
Read through sec. 8.8
Hand in: 8.13, 8.16
For Wednesday, 11/9:
Read through sec. 9.1
Suggested practice: 8.18, 9.1.
For Friday, 11/11:
Read through sec. 9.2
Hand in: 8.17, 8.28, 8.23 and add (d) Plot (using software, e.g. Mathematica's PolarPlot[]) r(φ) for 0 < φ < 12π with
β=1.11/2, 1.5, and 2. Let ε=0.75 and c=1.0
For Monday, 11/14:
Read through sec. 9.5
Suggested practice: 9.1, 9.7
For Tuesday, 11/15:
Read through sec. 9.8
Practice: 9.13, 9.19
Hand in: 8.27, 9.2, 9.3
For Wednesday, 11/16:
Read through sec. 9.10
Suggested practice: 9.14, 9.26
For Friday, 11/18:
Hand in: 9.22. Note: 9.27 deferred til next week, after the test.
For Monday, 11/21:
Test #2. Chap. 6, 7, and 8.
We will meet in MWAH 249 for the test. You may bring 6 equations of your own choosing. The math info from the inside covers of the text will again be provided along with this information.
For Tuesday, 11/22: Read through 10.2 Suggested practice: 10.3, 10.4, 10.5.
For Wednesday, 11/23:
Read through: 10.3
Suggested practice: 10.9, 10.13, 10.19
Hand in: 9.27, 10.6
For Monday, 11/28:
Read through 10.3
For Tuesday, 11/29:
Read through 10.4
Suggested practice: 10.21, 10.22
Hand in: Re-worked problems from Test 2 distributed in class.
For Wednesday, 11/30:
Read through: 10.5
Suggested practice: 10.30, 10.39
Hand in: 10.12
For Friday, 12/2: Read through 10.6 Hand in: 10.18, 10.24, 10.35
For Monday, 12/5:
Read through 10.9
Suggested practice: 10.44
For Tuesday, 12/6:
Read through sec. 11.2
Suggested practice: 11.1, 11.4
Hand in: 10.39, 10.40
For Wednesday, 12/7:
Read through sec. 11.3
Suggested practice: 11.15
For Friday, 12/9:
Read through sec. 11.4
Hand in: 11.2 11.6, 11.9
For Monday, 12/12:
Read through 11.6
Suggested practice: 11.21, 11.22
For Tuesday, 12/13:
Read through 11.7
Suggested practice: 11.33
For Wednesday, 12/14:
Hand in: 11.18, 11.25, 11.32
For Friday, 12/16: Review
Final exam Saturday, Dec. 17, at 10:00 am in MWAH 249.
You may bring a sheet of paper containing 12 "basic" formulas. Information contained on the inside covers of the text will be provided.