Spring 2008

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          Send your Take-home Tests to:  p321test@byu.edu
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          Sample Tests

        • Sample Test #1
        • Sample Test #2
        • Sample Final

          Course Documents

        • Course Outline
        • Course Schedule
        • Rotations
        • A Geometric Treatment of the Foucault Pendulum
        • Kinematics for Scattering in the CM and Lab
        • Impact Parameter and Scattering Angle

          Homework

        • Hour 1 (due 5/2):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 2 (due 5/2):   [PDF file] [Excel Worksheet for 2.1] [Excel Worksheet for 2.2] [Use the 2.2 worksheet for 2.3]
        • Hour 3 (due 5/5):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 4 (due 5/5):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 5 (due 5/7):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet] (Omit Problem 5.3)
        • Hour 6 (due 5/7):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 7:   None
        • Hour 8 (due 5/9):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 9 (due 5/12):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet] [Maple 7 Solutions to Problems with Phi Motion Included They don't work in Maple 9/10, however!]
        • Hour 10 (due 5/12): [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 11 (due 5/14): [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 12 (due 5/14): [PDF file]  [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 13:   None
        • Hour 14:   Review
        • Hour 15 (due 5/19): [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 16 (due 5/19): [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 17 (due 5/21): [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 18 (due 5/21): [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 19:   None
        • Hour 20 (due 5/23): [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 21 (due 5/28): [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 22 (due 5/28): [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 23 (due 5/30):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 24:   None
        • Hour 25 (due 6/2):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 26 (due 6/2):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 27:   Review
        • Hour 28 (due 6/4):   [PDF file] [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 29 (due 6/6):   [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 30 (due 6/6):   [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 31 (due 6/9): [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 32 (due 6/9): [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 33 (due 6/11): [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 34:   None
        • Hour 35 (due 6/13): [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 36:   None
        • Hour 37 (due 6/16): [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Hour 38:   None
        • Hour 39:   None
        • Hour 40:   None

          Take-home Tests

        • You may use your text, class notes, and homework. You may not discuss the tests with anyone else.
        • Test 1, C1-C4,   due Thursday, May 8.    [Maple 10 Worksheet]
        • Test 2, C5-C10, due Thursday, May 15.    [Maple 10 Worksheet] [PDF File]
        • Test 3, C11-C16, due Thursday, May 22.  [Maple 10 Worksheet] [PDF File]
        • Test 4, C17-C22, due Thursday, June 5.     [Maple 10 Worksheet] [PDF File]
        • Test 5, C23-C28, due Thursday, June 12.   [Maple 10 Worksheet] [PDF File]
        • Test 6, C29-C32, due Tuesday, June 17.    [Maple 10 Worksheet] [PDF File]

          Maple Examples

        • Class 3:   [Drag]
        • Class 3:   [Linear vs Quadratic Drag for a Sphere]
        • Class 4:   [Lorentz Force]
        • Class 5:   [Collisions]
        • Class 8:   [Vector Calculus in Maple]
        • Class 9:   [Potentials I]
        • Class 9:   [Potentials II]
        • Class 11: [Damped Oscillator]
        • Class 12: [Driven Oscillator]
        • Class 13: [Frequency Response in Driven Oscillators]
        • Class 13: [Driven Oscillator and Fourier Transforms]
        • Class 15: [Snell's law and Minimum Principle]
        • Class 15: [Pendulum]
        • Class 16: [Spring on Pendulum]
        • Class 17: [Ball on Block]
        • Class 17: [Spring and Wheel]
        • Class 19: [Pendulum on Incline]
        • Class 20: [Hamiltonians I]
        • Class 21: [Hamiltonians II]
        • Class 22: [The Moon's Orbit]
        • Class 23: [Solutions of the Orbital Equations]
        • Class 23: [Examples of Newtonian Orbits]
        • Class 25: [Rotating Coordinate Systems]
        • Class 29: [Principal Axes]
        • Class 30: [Book: Ellipsoids of Motion]
        • Class 30: [Book: Euler's Equations]
        • Class 30: [Football: Euler's Equations]
        • Class 31: [Finding the football Lagrangian]
        • Class 32: [Football: Lagrange's Equations]
        • Class 32: [Top: Lagrange's Equations]
        • Class 33: [Coupled Carts]
        • Class 33: [Masses on springs (Fig. 11.1)]
        • Class 34: [Normal Coordinates vs Normal Modes]
        • Class 35: [Nonlinear Equations: Successive Approximations]
        • Class 35: [State Space Plot: SHO]
        • Class 35: [DDP: Frequency Doubling Cascade]
        • Class 35: [DDP: Understanding the log plots of Section 12.5]
        • Class 35: [DDP: Sensitivity to Initial Conditions]
        • Class 35: [Nonlinear Equations: Attractors]

          Other Files of Possible Interest

        • Basic Maple Reference
        • Physics 230 MAPLE Resources
        • Chaos Course from Matthew Trump, University of Texas at Austin

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        • Online Maple Tutorial

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