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Physics 235: Classical Mechanics
Prof. S. Teitel stte@pas.rochester.edu ----- Fall 2001

October

(note: this calendar may be revised as the semester progresses)

September | October | November | December

Sunday	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday	Saturday
	1	2 Lecture CANCELED Recitation	3	4 Lecture 8 The driven oscillator - resonance, work and energy Chpt 3 HW#4 due	5	6
7	8 Fall Break	9 Lecture 9 superposition, Fourier series, Greens function Chpt 3 Lecture 10 (make-up during recitation) Calculus of Variations Chpt 6	10	11 Lecture 11 Calculus of Variations Chpt 6	12 HW#5 due, 1pm in metal locker outside B&L 166	13
14	15	16 Lecture 12 Calculus of Variations Constraints, Hamilton's Principle and Lagrange's Equations Chpt 6 & 7 Lecture 13 (make-up during recitation) Lagrange's Equations - examples Chpt 7	17	18 Lecture 14 Lagrange's Equations with constraints Chpt 7	19 HW#6 due, 1pm	20
21	22	23 Lecture 15 Lagranges's Equations with constraints - examples; Lagrange's equations and velocity dependent forces Chpt 7 Recitation	24	25 Lecture 16 Conservation laws revisited and Hamilton's equations Chpt 7	26 HW#7 due, 1pm	27
28	29	30 Lecture 17 Hamilton's equations: examples Chpt 7 MIDTERM EXAM in Recitation Covers all material through Lecture 14 notes	31