Physics 308: Advanced Classical Mechanics
Department of Physics, Haverford College
Fall 2004

Welcome

The textbook for the course is Classical Mechanics by John R. Taylor.

Photos of the class can be seen from the front and the side.

Course announcements for the class are located at the bottom of the page.

Downloads

• General Course Information
• Course Schedule

Homework assignments:

Solutions to homework assignments will be made available in the Physics Lounge (H107) soon after the due date.
• Assignment #1 (due Fri Sep 10)
• Assignment #2 (due Fri Sep 17)
• Assignment #3 (due Fri Sep 24)
• Assignment #4 (due Fri Oct 1)
• Assignment #5 (due Fri Oct 22)
• Assignment #6 (due Fri Oct 29)
• Assignment #7 (due Fri Nov 5)
• Assignment #8 (due Fri Nov 12)
• Assignment #9 (due Wed Nov 24)
• Assignment #10 (due Fri Dec 10)

Computer Project:

The manual for the computer project, Chaotic Phenomena and the Pendulum, will be handed out in class along with auxiliary information from Numerical Recipes in C, by Press et al. The only electronic files you will need to get started on the project are the two posted below:
• RKdemo.tru
  This is a TrueBasic program which illustrates how 4th-order Runge-Kutta integration works. No modification is necessary to make it run.

• phspshl.tru
  This is a TrueBasic program which is the starting point for the computer project. You will have to modify one line of this program to make it work, and you will modify it further in later stages of the project to get the program to model different kinds of pendulum behavior.

Announcements

Mon Aug 30, 2004: Lectures Moved to Observatory
Wed Aug 25, 2004: Office Hours
Mon Aug 23, 2004: Information for Students with Disabilities