All Textbook references are to An Introduction to Mechanics, second edition, by Daniel Kleppner and Robert Kolenkow. Cambridge University Press, 2013.

Before coming to class: review your Year 1 notes

• PHYS 1P21/1P91
• PPLATO also contains useful review links

Week 1. Vectors. Components of motion. Polar coordinates.

• K&K2, Ch.1.1-1.6,1.11
• Assignment 1, due 2018-01-23.

Week 2. Integration of kinematic equations.

• K&K2, Ch.1.7-1.10

Week 3. Newton's Laws.

• K&K2, Ch.2
• K&K2, Ch.3.4-3.6.
• Assignment 2, due 2018-02-06.

Week 4. Momentum, work, energy

• K&K2, Ch.3.7
• K&K2, Ch.4.1;4.6.
• K&K2, Ch.5.1-5.3.1; 5.6-5.7; 6.1-6.3.

Week 5. A simple harmonic oscillator

• K&K2, Ch.11
• Assignment 3, due 2018-02-16.

Week 6. Work, energy, momentum in 3D

• K&K2, the rest of Ch.4-5.
• Assignment 4, due 2018-03-02.

Week 7. Reading week

Week 8. Conservation of energy and momentum.

• K&K2, the rest of Ch.4-5.
• Assignment 5, due 2018-03-16.

Week 9. Angular momentum.

• K&K2, Ch.7.

Week 10. Angular momentum, cont'd. Rigid body motion.

• K&K2, Ch.7.
• Assignment 6, due 2018-03-27.

Week 11. Non-intertial systems.

• K&K2, Ch.8.
• Assignment 7, optional, solutions will be discussed in class April 9, 2018.

Week 12. Fictitious forces. Review problems.

• K&K2, Ch.8.
• Review problems.