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• Classical Mechanics Weblog for PHY 321
• Integrals you should know
• Chapter 2 Review for Exam I
• Exams at other sites 1
• Exam II Review
• Physics Problems that Challenge
• Exam III Topics
• Final Exam Topics
• Practice Problems for Final Exam
• Old PHY 201 and PHY 202 Summaries

Galileo

• No. 166: Galileo's Experiment Audio
• Galileo Drops the Ball - Virtual Experiment

Newtonian Mechanics

• Philosophić Naturalis Principia Mathematica - in Latin
• Get your own copy
• Newton's Laws of Motion
• Projectiles Using Maple 10, Maple File
• Solving the Quadratic Resistance Problem - Maple 10

Differential Equations

• Dr. Herman's Math Physics Notes
• SOS Math
• Second Order ODEs

Simple Harmonic Motion

• Maple Worksheets

  • Harmonic Motion Plotting

  • Damped Oscillator Plots

  • Forced Oscillations

  • fseries.mws

• The Simple Harmonic Oscillator

• Simple Pendulum

• The Pendulum Lab

• Forced Harmonic Motion

• Tacoma Narrows Bridge Disaster

• Physics and Acoustics of Baseball and Softball Bats

• LRC Circuits Background and Theory

• Spring-Dashpot Problem Maple file

Fourier Series

• Fourier Series - Eric Weinstein's World of Math

• SOS Math - Fourier Series

• Listen to Fourier Series

• Fourier Series and Waves

Nonlinear Systems

• Plotting
  • Phase Portraits
  • Potential and Phase Diagrams in Maple
  • Phase Plane for Simple Systems - Maple
  • Interactive Differential Equations
  • Planar Pendulum Period Maple
  • HW3 Plots Maple
  • HW4 Plots Maple
• Nonlinear Pendulum Applet
• The Simple, but Nonlinear Pendulum Article
• Elliptic Integral of the First Kind -- from MathWorld
• http://www.physics.odu.edu/~godunov/teaching/notes/CP09_chaos.pdf from Lecture Notes on Computational Physics
• Double Pendulum
• The Lorenz Attractor - in 3D
• Nonlinear Circuits - Potential Projects!
  • What are they?
  • Chua's Circuit and Chaos - and more!
  • Simple Chaotic Circuits
  • Synchronization

Gravitation

• Gravitational Potential Theory
• Notes on Gravitation
• Theories of Gravitation - History
• Gauss' Law for Gravitation
• Tunneling Through The Earth
  • TWIS Show here
  • The Gravity Express
  • An Applet
• Tides
  • Myths About Gravity and Tides
  • Tidal Misconceptions
  • Wikipediea - Tides
  • Tide Producing Forces
  • Maple - Tidal Force Field

Variational Principles

• Introduction to the Calculus of Variations
• Intro to Lagrange Multipliers
• Morris-Thorne Wormhole
• Wormholes as Black Hole Foils
• Schwarschild Metric
• Calculus of Variations Problems with Solutions

Lagrangian Dynamics

• Lagrangian Dynamics PPT
• Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics - online text
• More Examples in Lagrangian Dynamics
• More lectures Here and Here

Video Analysis Sites

Celestial Mechanics

Interesting Topics

• Theoretical Description of Spacecraft Flybys by Variation of ...

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