Physics@Brock

Weekly homework

Please, note that while some chapter-end problems will be assigned explicitly to be handed in, the students are encouraged and expected to review and attempt the majority of the chapter-end problems for the readings assigned on a weekly basis.

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 2019-01-25.

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 2019-02-08.

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 2019-02-26.

Week 6. Work, energy, momentum in 3D

K&K2, the rest of Ch.4-5.
Assignment 4, due 2019-03-08.

Week 7. Reading week

Week 8. Conservation of energy and momentum.

K&K2, the rest of Ch.4-5.
Assignment 5, due 2019-03-22.

Week 9. Angular momentum.

K&K2, Ch.7.

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

K&K2, Ch.7.
Assignment 6, due 2018-04-02.

Week 11. Non-intertial systems.

K&K2, Ch.8.
Assignment 7, optional, solutions will be discussed in class April 9, 2019.