MP350 Classical Mechanics
Lecture and tutorial times
Lectures
From Week 5 (20 October) the lectures times and venues will be- Thursday 0905-0955, Hall F, Arts Building (note change of room)
- Friday 1305-1355, in Hall D
Tutorials
From Week 6, tutorials will be Monday 1205-1255, Physics and Chemistry Theatre, Science Building. The tutorials start in Week 2 (26 September). Note that there is no tutorial in Week 5. Assignments are due in the following Monday, by the end of the lecture.
Lecture material
Recommended textbooks
The recommended textbook is
- Thornton and Marion: Classical Dynamics of particles and systems, Thomson 2004. ISBN 0-534-40896-6.
- Goldstein, Poole & Safko: Classical Mechanics, Pearson 2002. ISBN 0321-188977.
- Landau and Lifschitz: Mechanics, Pergamon 1976. ISBN 0-08-029141-4.
Lecture notes
Lecture notes will be available here in due course.
- Chapter 1, 2: Introduction and lagrangian mechanics
- Chapter 3: Hamiltonian mechanics (incomplete). Last updated 24 nov.
- Chapter 4: Central force motion (complete). Last updated 2 dec.
- Chapter 5: Rotations and rigid body motion is handed out in lectures only (handwritten notes).
Summary sheets
- Summary sheet on Lagrange mechanics
- Summary sheet on hamiltonian dynamics
- Summary sheet on central forces
- Summary sheet on rigid body motion
Exam
A brief list of derivations that may be asked on the exam
Tutorial problems and solutions
- Problem set 1
- Solutions to problem set 1
- Problem set 2
- Solutions to problem set 2
- Problem set 3 (due Thu 20 Oct 10am)
- Solutions to problem set 3
- Problem set 4 (due Fri 28 Oct 2pm)
- Solutions to problem set 4
- Problem set 5 (due 14 Nov)
- Solutions to problem set 5 corrected 18 nov
- Problem set 6 (due 21 Nov)
- Solutions to problem set 6 corrected 25 nov
- Problem set 7 (due 28 Nov)
- Solutions to problem set 7
- Problem set 8 (due 5 Dec)
- Solutions to problem set 8
- Problem set 9 (due 12 Dec)
- Solutions to problem set 9