Physics 210

Autumn 2009

Classical Mechanics

University of California at Santa Cruz

M,W,F 11:00 to 12:10, ISB Rm 231 

Instructor: Robert Johnson

Office: 323 Natural Sciences II

Phone: (831) 459-2125

 Office Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday 3:00-4:00 pm, Thursday 9:00-10:00 am

 

Physics 210 is the graduate-level course in classical mechanics at UCSC.  The textbook is the 3rd edition of Classical Mechanics, by Goldstein Poole & Safko.

Registered students should log into UCSC WebCT to access the course content.

Mechanics Physlets:

·        Projectile with Friction

·        Damped Harmonic Oscillator with Phase Space Plot

·        Damped Harmonic Oscillator with Position and Velocity Plots

·        2D Simple Harmonic Oscillator

·        Plane Pendulum with Phase Space Plot

·        Forced Simple Harmonic Oscillator

·        Oscillator Forced by a Triangular Wave

·        van der Pol Equation

·        Driven pendulum (chaotic system)

·        Central Force Orbits

·        Hohmann Transfer Between Orbits

·        Catching up to the Space Station

·        Rutherford Scattering

·        Rocket Motion

·        Rotating Reference Frame

·        Coupled Oscillators

 

Last Updated: July 24, 2009