- Web page up
- Homework 1 posted
- Homework 1due date pushed back to Wed, Jan 21
- Some People had questions about example 9.2 in the text. I've written up a partial solution, you can see it here
- Midterm 1 and Solutions are posted
- HW 4 now due on Friday, Feb 20
- (2/18/04)I made a few mistakes today in section, specifically I misstated the PARALLEL AXIS THEOREM. Click here to find out what the theorem actually says and what implications that has on the problem we were working on.
- (3/12/04) STUDY MATERIAL: SOLUTIONS TO SELECTED PROBLEMS FROM THE TEXT.
- (3/16/04) Final Solutions are posted
- (3/18/04) Full credit will be given to students who worked problem 3 on the final assuming the separation between the weights is L or L+2a, since the problem was vague about whether L was the distance between the centers or edges of the weights.
Course Information:
Course information, syllabus, grading policy, etc. (first day handout)
Lectures: MWF, 10-10:50AM, CENTER 222
Discussion: W, 4-4:50PM, PETER 102
Course Text: Thornton/Marion, Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, 5th edition
Course Description: See General Catalog
Instructor and TA Information -
Instructor: Professor Michael Norman, Ext. 2-4194, e-mail: mlnorman@ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Th 10:45-12:15, SERF 424
Teaching Assistant: Jake Stevenson, e-mail: jstevens@physics.ucsd.edu
Office Hours: Th 1:00-2:30 at Mayer Hall 2102
Course Materials:
- Homework assignments and solutions
- Lecture Notes
- Exams and Solutions
- Other alternative reading material besides the textbook
General Information
UCSD Student Resources - http://physics.ucsd.edu/students - Current Physics Department Student Information
http://www-physics.ucsd.edu/students/studentaffairs/ - Physics Department Undergraduate Student Affairs Offices and Links to Undergrad Labs and other physics student resources.
StudentLink - UCSD student website.