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PC1672 Advanced dynamics
Weekly plan
1 Relativity: weeks 1-3 |
2 Noninertial frames: week 4
3 Gravity: weeks 5-8 |
4 Rigid-body motion: weeks 8-12
- Week 1
- Lecture 1
- 1.1 Symmetry in physics
- Lecture 2
- 1.2 Lorentz invariance
- 1.3 Proper time
- Week 2
- Lecture 3
- 1.A Review of special relativity
- Textbook reference: K&K 11-13
- Lecture 4
- 1.4 Space-time 4-vectors
- Examples 1 questions 1-4
- Week 3
- Lecture 5
- 1.5 Relativistic momentum and
energy
- Lecture 6
- 1.6 Relativistic kinematics
- Examples 1 questions 5-8
- Week 4
- Lecture 7
- 2.1 Accelerating frames
- 2.2 Rotating frames
- Lecture 8
- 2.3 Motion on the Earth
- 2.4 The weather
- Examples 2 questions 1-6
- Week 5
- Lecture 9
- 3.1 Universal law of gravitation
- 3.2 Conservative forces
- 3.3 Gravitational potential energy
- Lecture 10
- 3.4 Gravitational potentials
- 3.5 Reduced mass
- Examples 3 questions 1-4
- Week 6
- Lecture 11
- 3.6 Central-force motion
- Lecture 12
- 3.7 Orbits
- Examples 3 question 5
- Week 7
- Lecture 13
- 3.8 The solar system
- 3.9 Satellites
- 3.10 Orbital energies
- Lecture 14
- 3.11 Space travel
- 3.12 Tides
- Examples 3 questions 6-11
- Week 8
- Lecture 15
- 3.13 Cosmology
- Lecture 16
- 4.1 Angular momentum and angular
velocity
- Examples 4 question 1
- Week 9
- Lecture 17
- 4.2 Rigid bodies
- 4.3 Tensors
- Lecture 18
- 4.4 Moment-of-inertia
tensor
- Examples 4 questions 2, 3
- Week 10
- Lecture 19
- 4.5 Principal axes
- Lecture 20
- 4.5 Principal axes (continued)
- 4.6 Euler's equations
- Examples 4 questions 4, 5
- Week 11
- Lecture 21
- 4.7 The symmetric top
- Lecture 22
- 4.8 Stability of free
rotation
- Examples 4 questions 6-8
- Week 12
- Lecture 23
- 4.9 Gyroscopes
- Examples 4 question 9
1 Relativity: weeks 1-3 |
2 Noninertial frames: week 4
3 Gravity: weeks 5-8 |
4 Rigid-body motion: weeks 8-12
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Mike Birse
5th September 2001