PHYS 380 Advanced Mechanics
Dr. Johnny B. Holmes

Catalog description: Primarily an advanced study of the kinematics and dynamics of single particles; Newton's laws; concepts of momentum, work, energy; and conservation principles. Prerequisites PHYS 252 and MATH 232.

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Syllabus for PHYS 380 word document or on-line version

• Study Guide for Part 1: One Dimensional Particle Motion word document or on-line guide
• Review of Physics I word document or on-line version
• Approximation Review word document or on-line version
• Power Series Review word document or on-line version
• F(t) forces word document or on-line version plus excel worksheet for P2-4
• F(v) forces word document or on-line version
• F(x) forces word document or on-line version
• Potential wells and oscillations word document or on-line version
• Free Fall and method of successive approximations word document or on-line version plus excel worksheet
• Freel Fall from a great height with no air resistance word document or on-line version
• Damped Harmonic Oscillator word document or on-line version
• Forced Damped Harmonic Oscillator word document or on-line version
• Fourier Series word document or on-line version
• Study Guide for Part 2: Two and Three Dimensional Particle Motion word document or on-line guide
• Work and Line Integrals word document or on-line version
• Gradient, Divergence and Curl: The Basics word document or on-line version
• Kinematics in 2-D word document or on-line version
• Kinematics in 3-D word document or on-line version
• Brief review of Vector Calculus word document or on-line version
• Energy and Angular Momentum Conservation Laws word document or on-line version
• Projectile Motion word document or on-line version plus excel worksheet
• General Central Force word document
• Inverse square law forces word document
• Conic sections word document
• Energy and Eccentricity word document
• Scattering by inverse square law force word document plus excel worksheet
• Motion in Electric and Magnetic Fields word document
• Study Guide for Part 3: Systems of Particles word document or on-line guide
• Conservation of Linear Momentum (filling a coal train and rockets) word document or on-line version
• Conservation of Angular Momentum for system of particles word document or on-line version
• 2-body collisions: the basics word document or on-line version
• 2-body collisions: Rr coordinates word document
• 2-body collisions: Center of Mass coordinates word document plus excel worksheet
• N-body problems word document
• Normal modes with example: two coupled oscillators word document
• Rigid Body - an Introduction word document
• Simple harmonic oscillator: small angle approximation; method of successive approximations word document
• Compound Pendulum and Sweet Spot on a Bat word document
• Stress and Strain; Catenary and Suspension Bridge word document
• Review of Hyperbolic functions word document
• Equilibrium of Fluids - pressure and depth (height) word document

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