MEETING TIMES

MWF 9:35 am – 10:25 am (period 3), in NPB 1101

CONTACT INFORMATION

Richard Woodard NPB 2065; Tel: 392-8744; Email: woodard@phys.ufl.edu

OFFICE HOURS

Thursday  3:00 pm – 3:50 pm (period 8) in NPB 2065.
Friday  4:05 pm – 4:55 pm (period 9) in NPB 2065.

ASSIGNED TEXT

Classical Mechanics, H. Goldstein, C. Poole and J. Safko
(Addison Wesley, San Francisco, 2002) 3rd edition ISBN 978-0-201-65702-9.

PREREQUISITES (if you are not a physics graduate student)

PHY 3221 and PHY 4222 - Undergraduate Classical Mechanics
PHY 3323 - Undergraduate Electromagnetism

CONTENT

Principle of least action, constraints, Noether's theorem, Galilean invariance, the Kepler problem, scattering, the virial theorem, free, forced and damped oscillations, small oscillations of a molecule, parametric resonance, the rotation group in 3 dimensions, equations of motion of rigid bodies, Hamilton's equations, Poisson brackets, canonical transformations, Liouville's theorem, the Hamilton-Jacobi equation, adiabatic invariants, the mechanics of continuous media.

HOMEWORK

Homework counts 305 of the grade and will be due each week at the start of class on Monday's. On weeks when there is no Monday class (9/3/18 and 11/12/18) homework will be due by noon on Tuesday in my office or my department mailbox.

GRADING POLICY

The course grade will be based on homework (30%), a test (35%) on October 3 (Periods E2-E3), and another test (35%) on Decmber 5 (periods E2-E3).

ACCOMMODATIONS

Students with disabilities requesting accommodations should first register with the Disability Resource Center (352-392-8565, www.dso.ufl.edu/drc/) by providing appropriate documentation. Once registered, students will receive an accommodation letter which must be presented to the instructor when requesting accommodations. Students with disabilities should follow this procedure as early as possible in the semester.