Spring 2009

Send your Homework to:           p321hw@byu.edu
Send your Take-home Tests to:  p321test@byu.edu
Send a message to the TA at:      p321ta@byu.edu

Your Grades

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  Sample Tests

• Sample Questions for Test #1
• Sample Questions for Test #2
• Sample Questions for 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 5/1):     [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 2 (due 5/1):     [PDF file] [Excel Worksheet for 2.1] [Excel Worksheet for 2.2] [Use the 2.2 worksheet for 2.3]
• Hour 3 (due 5/4):     [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 4 (due 5/4):     [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 5 (due 5/6):     [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 6 (due 5/6):     [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 7:   None
• Hour 8 (due 5/8):     [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 9 (due 5/11):   [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 10 (due 5/11): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 11 (due 5/13): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 12 (due 5/13): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 13:   None
• Hour 14:   Review
• Hour 15 (due 5/18): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 16 (due 5/18): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 17 (due 5/20): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 18 (due 5/20): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 19:   None
• Hour 20 (due 5/22): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 21 (due 5/27): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 22 (due 5/27): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 23 (due 5/29): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 24:   None
• Hour 25 (due 6/1): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 26 (due 6/1): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 27:   Review
• Hour 28 (due 6/6): [PDF file] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 29 (due 6/6): [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 30 (due 6/8): [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 31 (due 6/8): [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 32 (due 6/10): [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 33 (due 6/10): [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 34:   None
• Hour 35 (due 6/12): [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Hour 36:   None
• Hour 37 (due 6/15): [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica 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 7.        [PDF File] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Test 2, C5-C10, due Thursday, May 14.      [PDF File] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Test 3, C11-C16, due Thursday, May 21.    [PDF File] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Test 4, C17-C22, due Thursday, June 4.      [PDF File] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Test 5, C23-C28, due Thursday, June 11.    [PDF File] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]
• Test 6, C29-C32, due Tuesday, June 16.   [PDF File] [Maple Worksheet] [Mathematica Worksheet]

  Maple and Mathematica Examples

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

  Other Files of Possible Interest

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

  Maple Help Online

• Maple Homepage
• Online Maple Tutorial

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