Text: Classical Mechanics (JR Taylor) -- -- -- note there are errata at the textbook website ,
Supplementary: Marion, Spiegel, Wells, Symon, Boas (reserved in Brauer)
Mathematical formulae: Dwight (QA310.D5), Prudnikov (QA308.P7813) (reference shelf in Brauer) 

Before we start, here is a sure strategy to get the best grade possible -- it never fails:

1. Read the book before class.
2. Do all the problems from the textbook. If you don't understand the concepts, doing problems will help to clarify them.
3. Do problems from other books, too. Schaum's Outlines are helpful resources.
4. Once you understand the important concepts, think about the ways the equations represent them and can be manipulated.
5. Link all of the concepts and equations from the chapter together so that you can see the big picture.

All exams: (3-4 problems) open notes (only your own)
Grades: approximately 20% hw problems and 80% exams
Expected mathematical skills:
(1) second order ordinary differential equations
(2) integral and differential calculus on several variables
(3) Fourier expansions
(4) matrix eigenvalues and eigenvectors
(All will be introduced as practical skills as needed with no background.)

There will be no credit for late homework -- if the clock says 12:01, it's late.

week of	chapter	topics, main themes covered in lectures	problems due Friday at noon
Jan 10	2 - 4	Review of Conservation Laws and Newtonian methods	(3.21)
Jan 15	5	Linear oscillators, driven damped systems, phase space	4.8, 23
Jan 22	12	Fourier series, nonlinearity, real pendula, chaos, fractals	5.43, 45
Jan 29	7.1 - 7.5	Hamilton's Principle, Lagrangian dynamics, Energy equation	12.20
Feb 5	7.6 - 7.10	Feynman (YHWH ?), connections to quantum mechanics	7.14, 21
Feb 12	2-5	Test 1
Feb 12	8.1 - 8.5	Central Forces, Reduced mass	7.31
Feb 19	8.6 - 9.5	Kepler's laws, Rotating reference frames	8.22
Feb 26	9.6 - 10	Fictitious forces, Foucault's pendulum	9.29
Mar 5	0.1 - 10.4	Rigid Rotations, Inertia tensor, Principal moments	10.3, 7 Due Thursday before class
Mar 12	---------------	Spring Break (go find cherry blossoms)
Mar 19	10.5 - 10	Euler's equations, Free rotation of a symmetrical top	10.35
Mar 21	7 - 9	Test 2
Mar 26	11.1 - 4	Coupled oscillators, Normal modes	11.4, 6
Apr 2	11.5 - 7	Normal coördinates, Weighted strings	11.31 -- due Thursday 11am
Apr 9	16.1 - 3	Continuous systems, Waves on strings	this week's problems,
Apr 16	16.4	Classical field theory and Heisenberg's principle
Apr 23		review
May 4	Final Exam, 12pm