Lagniappe 2006
Instructor: Purrington
Office: 5050 Stern Hall
email: danny@tulane.edu
Text: Marion and Thornton, Classical Dynamics of Particles and System
SYLLABUS:
Weeks of
May 15 and 22 [May 15-25] Chapters 1-3.
May 29 and June 5 [May 29-June 8] Chapters 5-7; Exam June 1, Chaps 1-3. No class June 5.
June 12 and 19 [June 12-22] Chapters 8-10; Exam June 19, Chaps. 5-8
June 26 [June 26-29] Chapter 11. Final Exam June 29, Chaps. 9-11
Problems will be assigned for each chapter (see below). They will contribute 15% to your final grade.
We will do some computation,
which means two things.First, make
sure you have an RS6000 account, the secure shell client SSH, and xwin-32 for
your PC so that you can do graphics using GNUPLOT or some better graphics
program.This will require getting a license key from TCS.
Second, I will probably have you do some
computation using FORTRAN (archaic but still the standard in the sciences) or,
if you know it, C++. Begin to
familiarize yourself with MATHEMATICA if you haven't already done so, as
well as MATLAB. We have MATLAB running on a PC in the department. MATHEMATICA
is available on the RS6000 although there are font problems.
I will expect you to
try to exploit MATHEMATICA or MATLAB on every problem assigned, where it is appropriate.
Chapter 1: 1, 4, 9, 11, 14, 20, 21, 22; due May 22.
Chapter 2: 7, 11, 16, 25, 33, 52, 53; Due May 26
Chapter 3: 1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 24, 28; Due June 1.
Chapter 5: 3,4,6,10, 15; Due June 7
Chapter 6: 2,6, 10; Due June 12
Chapter 7: 1,3,6,7,13,25, 28; Due June 16
Chapter 8: 3,5,7,10,13,14,26; Due June 20
Chapter 9: 2,9,15,23,53; Due June 26.
Chapter 10: 1, 3, 6, 8
Chapter 11: 2, 10, 13, 16, 25; Due June 28.