Louisiana State University

Physics 7221, Classical mechanics

This is the home page for Physics 7221, Fall 2015.

Information

• Couse instructions

  Problem sets

• Problem set 1, due date 9/10/15. Solutions.
• Problem set 2, due date 9/17/15. Solutions.
• Problem set 3, due date 9/24/15. Solutions.
• Problem set 4, due date 10/8/15. Solutions.
• Midterm exam, 10/13/15. Covers up to and including set 4. Solutions.
• Problem set 5, due date 10/27/15. Solutions.
• Problem set 6, due date 11/12/15. Solutions.
• Problem set 7, due date 12/3/15. Solutions.
• Final exam, 12/7/15. Solutions.

  Interesting things

• Runge Lenz vector and symmetries (lots of stuff here, if you want what is closer to what we discussed in classs scroll down to Göransson's work)
• Appendix A of Goldstein 2nd Edition.