FINAL EXAM: The final exam will be available outside
room 201 Downs on Monday,
March 12. It is due THURSDAY, MARCH 15 by 5p.m..
NO EXTENSIONS except
for medical emergencies/extenuating circumstances.
It will be 3 hours. You may use one 8.5 x 11" sheet
(both sides) of formulae/notes you
write yourself. It will cover everything we have
done this term, with an emphasis
on E&M (the material since the midterm).
Lecturer
Prof.
Fiona Harrison
fiona@srl.caltech.edu
211 Downs Lab
x 6601
office hours - Wednesday 2-3 p.m. and by appointment
(NOTE CHANGE IN OFFICE HOURS)
Teaching Assistants
Yanbei
Chen- yanbei@its.caltech.edu
156 W. Bridge
office hours: 8:00 - 9:30 p.m. Wednesday
Yi Li - ylm@its.caltech.edu
355 Lauritsen (for office hours only)
office hours: 8:30 - 10:00 p.m. Tuesday
Federico Spedalieri - federico@its.caltech.edu
250 Lauritsen
office hours: 3:00 - 5:00 p.m. Monday
Time
- 1 - 2:30 Tues/Thurs
Location - 107
Downs
TEXTBOOKS
First half:
Required:
Analytic Mechanics, Hand and Finch
Supplemental: Classical Mechanics,
Goldstein
Second half:
Required: Classical Electrodynamics, J. D. Jackson
HANDOUTS
General information and synopsis of topics - first half (PDF file)
CALENDAR
Jan. 2
No Class (handouts distributed in 107 Downs @1 pm)
Jan. 4 - 11
Hamiltonian Dynamics
Jan 8
Presentation #1 - group #1
Jan 11
HW 1 due
Jan. 11 - 18
Canonical transformations, action-angle variables, Hamilton-Jacobi
Eqn.
Jan. 16
Presentation #2 - group #2
Jan 18
HW 2 due
Jan 23 - 30
Chaotic Dynamics
Jan 23
Presentation #3 - group #3
Feb 1
Midterm Review/Midterm Out, HW 3 due, Presentation #4 - group #4
Feb 6
Midterm Due - Start Electricity and magnetism
LECTURE NOTES
Topic 1: Hamiltonian Dynamics (PDF
file)
Topic 2: Canonical Transformations, Hamilton-Jacobi
equation, Adiabatic Invariants etc. (PDF file)
Topic 3: Chaos (figures for first part in notebook
in 203 Downs) (PDF file)
Topic 1 E&M: Review of Electrostatics,
Intro to Poisson Eqn. (PDF file)
Topic 2 E&M: Poisson Equation,
Intro to Green's Functions (PDF file)
Topic 3 E&M: Solutions to Laplace's EQN , Series
Expansions (PDF file)
HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS
Homework 1 - Due. Jan 11 (PDF)
Homework 2 - Due Jan 18 (PDF)
Homework 3 - Due Jan 25 (PDF)
Homework 4 - Due Feb 1 (PDF)
Homework 5 - Due Feb 15 (PDF)
Homework 6 - Due Feb 22 (PDF)
Homework 7 - Due Mar 8 (PDF)
PRESENTATION PROBLEMS
Presentation problem 1 - assigned to group 1: H&F
Chapter 5 problem 5
Presentation problem 2 - assigned to group 2: H&F
Chapter 6 problem 12
Presentation problem 3 - assigned to group 3: H&F
Chapter 6 problem 17
Presentation problem 4/5 - see HW 4
Presentation problem 6 - group 6: see HW 5
Presentation problem 7 - group 7 - see HW 6
Presentation 8,9,10 - see HW 7
PRESENTATION GROUP ASSIGNMENTS
MIDTERM RESULTS
MEAN - 22.4/30
Midterms and solutions are available in room 203 Downs
FINAL EXAM RESULTS