The lecture notes were typed by students who took the class. Notes for lectures 7 through 12 are not available.
LEC # | LECTURE NOTES | RELATED MATHEMATICA FILES |
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1 | Introduction and 8.01 refresher (PDF) | |
2 | Building up to PLA (PDF) |
With m2 free to swing, using F = ma |
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Solving Equations of Motion (NB) with NDSolve in Mathematica |
4 | Mechanics of Lagrangians, and why L = T - U (PDF) | |
5 | Full example and conservation of Energy (PDF) | |
6 | Conservation of Momentum, and Center of Mass (PDF) | |
13 | Damped Oscillations (PDF) |
Transfer Function Response Beats, anharmonic behavior, and sideways Kapitza Damped Vertically Driven Pendulum (NB) Parmetric resonance, Kapitza |
14 | Tricky Potentials (PDF) | |
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16 | Poisson Brackets (PDF) | |
17 | Canonical Transforms (PDF) | |
18 | Connections (PDF) |