School of Mathematics, Trinity College

Course 141 - Classical Mechanics 1 (click for more information)




Instructors

Dr. Yakov M. Shnir
Office: 2.45 Lloyd Building
Phone:  01 896 1267
Office Hours: email for appointment
E-mail: shnir@maths.tcd.ie
Tutors:

Dr. Raymond Russell
E-mail:raymond@corvil.com
and
Clare O Hara
E-mail: clohara@tcd.ie


Class Meetings

Lectures: Wednesday
9:00-9:50 Salmon Lecture Theatre
1

Thursday
9:00-9:50 Salmon Lecture Theatre
1
Lectures/Problem Session: Thursday
13:00-13:50 Salmon Lecture Theatre 1


Course outline:

Vectors, Newton's laws, conservation of momentum, Newtonian gravity, inertial and accelerated reference frames, Galilean transformations, motion of charged particles in electric and magnetic fields, conservative forces, conservation of energy, harmonic oscillator, two-particle dynamics, conservation of angular momentum, rigid body dynamics, two-body central force problem, including scattering.


Homework

Problems will be given on Wednedays and are due at the BEGINNING of the class on Wednesday the following week.
Students can collaborate on their homework, however, each student should hand in her or his own copy of solutions.

Problem Sets in Postscript:


Sheet 1 Sheet 2 Sheet 3 Sheet 4 Sheet 5 Sheet 6 Sheet 7 Sheet 8 Sheet 9 Sheet 10 Sheet 11 Sheet 12 Sheet 13 (Solutions to the Set 13) Sheet 14 Sheet 15 Sheet 16 Sheet 17 Sheet 18 Sheet 19 Sheet 20


Problem Sets in PDF:


Sheet 1 Sheet 2 Sheet 3 Sheet 4 Sheet 5 Sheet 6 Sheet 7 Sheet 8 Sheet 9 Sheet 10 Sheet 11 Sheet 12 Sheet 13 (Solutions to the Set 13) Sheet 14 Sheet 15 Sheet 16 Sheet 17 Sheet 18 Sheet 19 Sheet 20