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Analytical Mechanics II (Spring 2015) 


General:

This is a B.Sc. course, which will be held in Physics Department of Sharif University of Technology.

Class Time:  Sunday and Tuesday   8:30 - 10:30

Place: 

Registered students:


About the Course:

This is the second course on  Analytical Mechanics, one of the main courses of Physics department for B.Sc. students.

The main course book is:  Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems  by Stephen T. Thornton and Jerry B. Marion

 Cengage Learning; 5 edition (July 7, 2003), For more info see the TIME LINE OF LECTURES


Grading:

Final Exam :  7  points         YOU CAN SEE THE RESULTS HERE.   (Updated 20 July 2015)

Sunday - 20 January  2015 - @ 9:00  /  امتحان پایان ترم -   یکشنبه 24 خرداد 94 ساعت 9:00  مکان تالار 5  

Mid-term 2:   5  points         YOU CAN SEE THE RESULTS HERE.  

Thursday - 7 May 2015 -  @9:00 - Place will be announced / امتحان میان ترم 2 -پنجشنبه 17 اردیبهشت 93 ساعت 9:00مکان تالار 6 

Mid-term 1:   4  points        YOU CAN SEE THE RESULTS HERE.  

Thursday - 12 March 2015 - @9:00 - Place will be announced / حان میان ترم 1 -  سه شنبه 19 اسفند 93 ساعت 9:00 مکان کلاس درس

Assignments: 4  points         YOU CAN SEE THE RESULTS HERE.  (Updated 20 July 2015)

Essay and Presentation:  bonus points

Quiz:   bonus points 

Total grade: 20 + bonus points    ** YOU CAN SEE THE RESULTS HERE.**  (Updated 20 July 2015)


TA Classes:

This course will have a three TA classes

1) Group 1 : Miss Fatemeh Bagheri

2) Group 2 : Mr. Abbas Alizadeh

3)Group 3: Mr. Amin Safdari

 


Suggested Reading:

will be updated...

1) The theoretical Minimum by leonard susskind and George Hrabovsky - 2013

2)Classical Mechanics by John R. Taylor 2005

3)Classical Mechanics (3rd Edition) by Goldstein, Poole and Safko – June 25, 2001

4)Mechanics (3rd Edition) by Symon  – January 11, 1971

5)Classical Mechanics (5th Edition) by Tom W B Kibble and Frank H Berkshire (Jun 3, 2004)

6)An Introduction to Mechanics by Daniel Kleppner and Robert Kolenkow (Nov 18, 2013)

7)Introduction to Classical Mechanics, David Morin, 2008

8)Mechanics- Landau and Lifshitz 1975


Lectrure Notes and Presentations:

* Dynamics of Rigid Bodies

* Special Topics in Hamiltonian Mechanics I

* Special Topics in Hamiltonian Mechanics II

* Concepts in Theoretical Physics I


Time Line of Lectures:

You can find the time-table of the course and syllabuses here   (Must be updated !!)


Assignments:

1) Problem Set 1  due to  Wednesday  18 February - چهارشنبه 29 بهمن  Solutions:   S1-A, S1-B, S1-C, S1-D

2) Problem Set 2  due to  Wednesday   4 March      - چهارشنبه 13 اسفند  Solutions:   S2-A,

3) Problem Set 3  due  to  Wednesday  8 April  -      چهارشنبه 19 فروردین   Solutions: Zip file

4) Problem Set 4 - A due to Wednesday  6 May  - چهارشنبه  16 اردیبهشت   Solutions: Zip file

5) Problem Set 4 - B: Problems in the Lecture Note of Special topics in Hamiltonian Mechanics II due to  Wednesday 13 May - چهارشنبه 23 اردیبهشت

6) Problem Set 5 - due to Sunday 17 May - یکشنبه 27 اردیبهشت


Problems proposed in TA classes:

* Problem Set 3



Essays and Projects:

1) Retrograde motion of Mars: 91110796

2) Rosseta Project:  92101393


Useful Links:

will be updated...