Course Information
Lectures at MWF 10:30-11:20 on zoom
| Dr. Andrew Frey a dot frey at uwinnipeg dot ca |
Marker: TBA For questions about marking only |
| Office Hours by appointment |
This is the course homepage for PHYS-3202, Intermediate Mechanics.
I welcome feedback and comments on the course. If you're more comfortable commenting anonymously, upload a text file marked as comments to the homework upload link below.
Texts
- Required: Mechanics and
Relativity by Idema, Sept 2019 ed
- Required: Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics by Cline, 2nd ed
- These texts are both available through the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. You may print them if you wish; see here for a permission form to take to university printing services.
In addition, some extra reading (from other texts, journal articles, etc) may be assigned.
Important Dates
- First Lecture: Sept 8, 2021
- Fall Reading Week: Oct 10-16, 2021 (no class)
- Miderm Test: Oct 27-29, 2021 (take-home)
- Voluntary Withdrawal Date: Nov 16, 2021
- Last Regular Lecture: Dec 6, 2021
- Course Project Due: Dec 15, 2021
- Review Session: 2PM Dec 16, 2021
- Final Exam: noon Dec 19 to noon Dec 21, 2021 (take-home)
Reading Schedule
Reading assignments will be posted on the course web page. You are responsible for keeping up with the reading; material covered in the reading will not necessarily be discussed in the class lectures but may be relevant to assignments. If you click the topic title, you'll get a scanned copy of my lecture notes.
Books are identified by the authors' last initial. Italicized reading is optional.
| Dates | Topic | Reading |
|---|---|---|
| 8-10 Sept | Newton's Laws Review | I§1.1-2,2.1; C§1.1-4,2.2 |
| 10-24 Sept | Linear Motion | I§2.2-5;3.1-2;4.4-7;C§3.5-6 |
| 24 Sept - 1 Oct | 3D Motion: Vector Calculus Review | C§B.1-4;C.1-2;G.1-3;H.1-3 |
| 1-8 Oct | 3D Motion: General Considerations | I§3.3-4;5.1-3;6.1; C§2.9.2;2.12.4-5;3.4.1 |
| 8-25 Oct | 3D Motion: Inverse Square Law | I6.3-4; C11.8 through 11.8.3 (check notation) |
| 25-27 Oct | Review Session | |
| 27-29 Oct | Take-Home Midterm TEST | Solution |
| 1-5 Nov | 3D Motion: Scattering & Cross Sections | C§11.12 |
| 5-12 Nov | Non-Inertial Frames: Fictitious Forces | I§7.2; C§12.1-5,8 |
| 12-19 Nov | Non-Inertial Frames: Effects on Earth | C§12.10,11,13 |
| 22-26 Nov | Rigid Body Rotation: Matrices & Tensors | C§A.1,2,4 |
| 26 Nov - 1 Dec | Rigid Body Rotation:Moments of Inertia | I§4.1,5.4,7.3.1;C§13.3-12 |
| 1-6 Dec | Rigid Body Rotation: Cases of Rotational Motion | I§5.8-9,7.3.2;C§13.17,13.20.1, 13.22,§13.18 example 8 only |
| 19-21 Dec | Final Exam TAKE-HOME FINAL |
Assignments
Policies
Please see the course outline for the official statement of homework policies. The following are guidelines:
- Assignments will only be posted on this web page; you must let me know if you need alternate delivery.
- Assignments will be posted Wednesday and are typically due the next Wednesday. Assignments are due by 10:59PM on the listed due date. Make sure to label your assignment with your name.
- Upload homeworks to this link.
- Assignments must be submitted as PDF files. These may be black-and-white scans or photographs of hardcopies (all converted to PDF), PDF prepared by LaTeX, or PDF prepared with a word processor using an equation editor.
- Include your name on your assignment. Name your files with first initial, last name, and assignment number. If you need multiple files, label them in order with lower case letters. Example: AFrey_hw1.pdf or AFrey_hw1a.pdf, AFrey_hw1b.pdf, etc.
- Collaboration is allowed, but you must write up your own solutions independently (in your own words).
- Late assignments will only be accepted with prior permission from the instructor.
- Assignments that are not neatly organized and written will receive zero credit (one warning allowed). Please see the course outline.
- If you find a mistake in grading, please talk to Dr Frey.
Homework Sets
Solutions removed for security reasons.
- Assignment 1 due 22 Sept
- Assignment 2 due 29 Sept
- Assignment 3 due 6 Oct
- Assignment 4 due 20 Oct
- Assignment 5 due 3 Nov
- Assignment 6 due 10 Nov
- Assignment 7 due 17 Nov
- Assignment 8 REVISED due 24 Nov
- Assignment 9 due 1 Dec
- Assignment 10 due 8 Dec
- Assignment 11 NOT TO BE HANDED IN
Course Project
Instructions, including the detailed marking scheme and all deadlines are given here: Project Instructions. In short, you will answer several questions about the movie Gravity, which you can stream from the UWinnipeg library here with your WebAdvisor login.
- Project papers are due to the homework upload folder by 10:59PM on Dec 15.
- Papers must be PDF files prepared using LaTeX or MS Word (or similar word processor) with an equation editor.
Last updated: 13:25 on 9 Aug 2022