Course Information
Lectures at MWF 10:30-11:20 in room 2L14
Dr. Andrew Frey2L26
a dot frey at uwinnipeg dot ca
204-786-9215
Office Hours by appointment on zoom
Zoom coordinates for office hours
or if you must attend class remotely
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.
COVID-19 Info
An individual in this class has a medical accommodation requiring that everybody in the class be masked. If you are not prepared to wear a mask in class you should withdraw from this course and select a different course.
If you feel ill or have new or worsening symptoms of COVID-19, please do not come to class (or the university at all)! If you let me know about an absence in advance, I will attempt to set up zoom in the class room for you to attend remotely. Additionally, if I need to stay home due to illness but am well enough to teach, I will teach remotely via zoom and let you know in advance via UWinnipeg email.
Texts
- Required: Lectures on Dynamics and Relativity by David Tong, March 2013
- Required: Mechanics and
Relativity by Idema, Sept 2019 ed
- Supplemental: Variational Principles in Classical Mechanics by Cline, 2nd ed
- These texts are all free to download. The text by Tong is under copyright, so you may not distribute it. The texts by Idema and Cline 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 7, 2022
- Day of Mourning: Sept 19, 2022 (no class)
- Truth & Reconciliation Day: Sept 30, 2022 (no class)
- First Miderm Test: Oct 6-7, 2022 (take-home)
- Fall Reading Week: Oct 9-15, 2022 (no class)
- Second Miderm Test: 8-10 Nov, 2022 (take-home)
- Remembrance Day: Nov 11, 2022 (no class)
- Voluntary Withdrawal Date: Nov 16, 2022
- Last Regular Lecture: Dec 5, 2022
- Make-Up Lectures: Dec 6, 7, & 9, 2022
- Review Session: 11AM Dec 12, 2022, Room 2L14
- Final Exam: 5PM 13 Dec to 5PM 15 Dec, 2022 (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 |
|---|---|---|
| 7-14 Sept | Newtonian Mechanics | T §1, 2.1(intro); I §2.1, 3.1-2, 3.3(intro), 3.4, 5.1-2, A.1 |
| 16 Sept - 17 Oct | Sample Forces and Systems | T §2.1,3,5; I §2.2-6, 8.1-3 |
| 6-7 Oct | 1st Midterm Test | |
| 17-28 Oct | Central Forces and Orbits | T §2.2,4.1-3; I §5.3,5.6,6.3-4,A.2 |
| 31 Oct - 18 Nov | Rotation, Part I | T §2.3.1,5.1.1,5.4; I §5.4,5,7-9 |
| 8-10 Nov | 2nd Midterm Test | |
| 18-28 Nov | Accelerating Reference Frames | T §6 I §7.2 |
| 28 Nov - 8 Dec | Rotation, Part II | I §7.3; Tong Classical Dynamics §3.2-6; suggested: C §13.4-17 |
| 13-15 Dec | Final Exam |
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 21 Sept
- Assignment 2 due 28 Sept
- Assignment 3 due 5 Oct
- Assignment 4 due 19 Oct
- Assignment 5 due 26 Oct
- Assignment 6 due 2 Nov
- Assignment 7 due 16 Nov
- Assignment 8 due 23 Nov
- Assignment 9 due 30 Nov
- Assignment 10 due 7 Dec
- Assignment 11 NOT DUE
Last updated: 21:27 on 31 Aug 2023