Dynamics

Part IB Advanced Physics Course

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·	History of Dynamics
·	Precession of the earth
·	Planetary dynamics
·	Harrison's clocks
·	Anecdotes
·	Gravitational Slingshot
·	Voyager
·	Lagrange Points
·	Rigid bodies
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2000 Lecture notes
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Lecture notes for 2001

A small number of handouts are distributed in lectures. Those, and my scanned lecture notes, are below.

lecture notes	handouts and other useful stuff
Lecture 1: The Energy Method.
Lecture 2: Dimensional Analysis	Handout 2: Dimensional analysis (html) / (postscript) | (pdf) |
Lecture 3: Newtonian Dynamics Revision	Handout 3: Newtonian Dynamics Revision (postscript) | (pdf) |
Lecture 3-4: Extensions of the energy method	Planetary assignment Handout 4: Almost Inverse-square force-law orbits (postscript) | pdf | old Handwritten version |
Lecture 5: Perturbation Expansions, State space diagrams + Lagrangian Dynamics.	State space diagram of pendulum
Lecture 6: Perturbation expansions + Lagrangian Dynamics, continued.
Lecture 7: Pendulums, Lagrangian Dynamics, and the Hamiltonian.
Lecture 8: Hamiltonian Dynamics.	Bead dynamics from the Hamiltonian
	Handout 5: Hamiltonian dynamics summary and example (postscript) | pdf | Liouville's theorem for vertically bouncing balls |
Lecture 9: Normal Modes I .	Handout 6: Drag force by dimensional analysis (postscript) | pdf | About surface tension and latent heat
	Molecule modes: Quicktime Movie by Luca Turin (more info)
Lecture 10: Normal Modes II .
	Handouts 7a & 7: Normal modes - 7a (postscript, 2 pages) | pdf | 7 (postscript, 8 pages) | pdf |
Lecture 11: Normal Modes III .
Lecture 12: Normal Modes IV .	Symmetries and eigenvectors - the complex wave (corkscrew) is an eigenvector of the translation operator
Lecture 13: Elasticity .	| Beats | Handout 8 contains the following sections: 1: | Strain and stress - postscript | | pdf | 2: | Kepler's Ellipses, and gravitational slingshots (postscript) | pdf | orbit diagram | 3: | Rotating frames (postscript) | pdf | 4: | Optional reading - Inverted pendulum | pdf |
Lecture 14: Kepler and orbits .	| Marimba | History of planetary observations | Orbits in inverse-square potential |
Lecture 15: Fictitious forces in rotating frames .
Lecture 16: Rigid bodies .	(A subset of these notes were used in the 2001 lecture 16)