PHYS2650: Classical Mechanics 1 - Winter 2021

Welcome to PHYS2650: Classical Mechanics 1.

Tutorial sessions will be held on Tuesdays at 4:30. These are intended to be informal, open format tutorials where you can ask for help on specific questions, or for review of certain topics. Observers are free to join in.

Please select a topic of interest from the list below.

• General information about the course.
• Schedule of topics and due dates.

Final Exam

• Here is a video of the tutorial held on Monday, April 19.
• The final will be held on Tuesday, April 20, 6:00-9:00 p.m. You will have an additional 10 minute grace period to allow for scanning and uploading of solutions.
• Late submissions will not be accepted, so please upload whatever you have by 9:10 p.m. If you run into technical difficulties notify me immediately, then photograph and email me your solutions.
• The final exam will cover all material as outlined in the course handout and the readings from the lectures given below.
• The final exam can be accessed on the Assignments section of the course on UMLearn beginning at 6:00 p.m. Upload a scanned or photographed answer for each question, or put all the answers into one file. There is no limit on the number of uploads.
• Include an Honesty Declaration with your submission. You can fill this out in advance to save time.
• You may use a calculator, your textbook, the course notes, and other material posted on the course website. You may not use any other material. You may not consult or communicate in any manner with any other person during the exam. Penalties for cheating include failure of the course and/or suspension from the university.
• The formula sheet is here. You should study it and print it out ahead of time.
• If you have questions during the exam you can email me: blunden@physics.umanitoba.ca

Midterm exam

• The formula sheet, the midterm exam, and the solutions.
• A histogram of the mark distributions for each question and the total.

Assignments

Assignments should be scanned into a single PDF file and uploaded to UMLearn. You must include an Honesty Declaration with each assignment.

For scanning documents to PDF you can use your phone: iPhone users can try iScanner; Android users can use the built-in Google Drive app.

• Assignment 1 (due Thursday, Jan 28). Solutions are here.
• Assignment 2 (due Thursday, Feb 11). Solutions are here.
• Assignment 3 (due Tuesday, Mar 2). Solutions are here.
• Assignment 4 (due Tuesday, Mar 16). Solutions are here.
• Assignment 5 (due Thursday, Apr 1). Solutions are here.
• Assignment 6 (due Thursday, Apr 15). Solutions are here.

Lectures

• Lecture 1: Read sections 1.1-1.4
• Lecture 1: Written notes
• Lecture 1: Video
• Lecture 2: Read sections 1.5-1.7
• Lecture 2: Written notes
• Lecture 2: Video
• Lecture 3: Read sections 2.1-2.2
• Lecture 3: Written notes
• Lecture 3: Handout
• Lecture 3: Video
• Lecture 4: Read sections 2.3-2.4; sections 3.1-3.2
• Lecture 4: Written notes
• Lecture 4: Video
• Lecture 5: Read section 3.3
• Lecture 5: Written notes
• Lecture 5: Handout
• Lecture 5: Video
• Lecture 6: Read sections 3.4-3.5
• Lecture 6: Written notes
• Lecture 6: Video
• Lecture 7: Read sections 4.1-4.3, 4.6
• Lecture 7: Written notes
• Falling chain example
• Lecture 7: Video
• Lecture 8:
• Lecture 8: Written notes
• Lecture 8: Handout
• Lecture 8: Video
• Lecture 9: Read sections 5.1-5.2
• Lecture 9: Written notes
• Lecture 9: Handout
• Lecture 9: Video
• Lecture 10: Read section 5.4
• Lecture 10: Written notes
• Lecture 10: Handout
• Lecture 10: Video
• Lecture 11: Read sections 5.5-5.6
• Lecture 11: Written notes
• Lecture 11: Handout
• Demonstration video of resonance behaviour
• Lecture 11: Video
• Lecture 12:
• Lecture 12: Written notes
• Lecture 12: Handout
• Lecture 12: Video
• Lecture 13: Read sections 8.1-8.3 (ignore the discussion in 8.3 using Lagrangians)
• Lecture 13: Written notes
• Lecture 13: Video
• Lecture 14: Read sections 8.4-8.5
• Lecture 14: Written notes
• Lecture 14: Handout
• Lecture 14: Video
• Lecture 15: Read section 8.6
• Lecture 15: Written notes
• Lecture 15: Video
• Lecture 16: Read sections 8.7-8.8
• Lecture 16: Written notes
• Lecture 16: Handout on change of orbit and gravity-assisted orbits
• Unfortunately there is no video recording of this lecture.
• Lecture 17: Read section 9.2
• Lecture 17: Written notes
• Lecture 17: Handout
• Lecture 17: Video
• Lecture 18: Read section 9.1
• Lecture 18: Written notes
• Lecture 18: Handout
• Lecture 18: Notes on tidal evolution of earth-moon system (not in the textbook)
• Lecture 18: Video
• Lecture 19: Read sections 9.3-9.4
• Lecture 19: Written notes
• Lecture 19: Video
• Lecture 20: Read sections 9.5-9.7
• Lecture 20: Written notes
• Lecture 20: Video
• Lecture 21: Read section 9.8
• Lecture 21: Written notes
• Lecture 21: Video
• Lecture 22: More examples for non-inertial reference frames
• Lecture 22: Written notes
• Lecture 22: Video
• Lecture 23: More examples for non-inertial reference frames
• Lecture 23: Written notes (corrected for error on page 156)
• Sliding pucks: detailed notes
• Lecture 23: Video

Suggested Problems

Here is a list of suggested problems from the text:

• Chapter 2: 12, 18, 37, 38, 41, 42 Solutions
• Chapter 3: 1, 11, 25, 27 Solutions
• Chapter 4: 34, 35 Solutions
• Chapter 5: 8, 29, 35, 40, 41, 44 Solutions
• Chapter 8: 12, 28, 29, 32, 35 Solutions
• Chapter 9: 8, 10, 15, 28 Solutions

Supplementary

Supplementary notes

• Background review of integration, including multiple integrals

If you need more information, please send me email via: blunden@physics.umanitoba.ca  Please put "PHYS2650" in the subject line.