Dynamics

Part IB Advanced Physics Course

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Lecture notes
Exercises
·	Solutions
·	More Physics Fun
Further information
·	History of Dynamics
·	Precession of the earth
·	Planetary dynamics
·	Harrison's clocks
·	Anecdotes
·	Gravitational Slingshot
·	Voyager
·	Lagrange Points
·	Rigid bodies
Administrative stuff
·	Typos in the textbook
·	Finding the textbook
·	Software
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Lecture notes for 2000

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	Further reading about dimensional analysis (html) / (postscript) |
Lecture 3-4: Extensions of the energy method	Planetary dynamics observations
Lecture 4: Perturbation Expansions .
Lecture 5: State space diagrams, Lagrangian Dynamics.	State space diagram of pendulum
	Handout 2: Almost Inverse-square force-law orbits (postscript) | pdf | old Handwritten version |
	Handout 3: Wonky pendulum solution (postscript) | pdf |
Lecture 6: Lagrangian Dynamics, continued; the Hamiltonian.	Kater's pendulum
Lecture 7: Hamiltonian Dynamics.	Bead dynamics from the Hamiltonian
	Handout 4: Drag force by dimensional analysis (postscript) | pdf |
	Handout 5: Hamiltonian dynamics summary and example (postscript) | pdf |
Lecture 8: Normal Modes I .	Molecule modes: Quicktime Movie by Luca Turin (more info)
Lecture 9: Normal Modes II .	Liouville's theorem for vertically bouncing balls Kater's pendulum, further information
Lecture 10: Normal Modes III .	Handout 6: Normal modes (postscript, 8 pages) | pdf |
Lecture 11: Normal Modes IV .	Beats
Lecture 12: Normal Modes V .	Marimba
Lecture 13: Elasticity .	| H7: Strain and stress - postscript | | pdf |
Lecture 14: Kepler and orbits .	History of planetary observations | Orbits in inverse-square potential | H8: Kepler's Ellipses, and gravitational slingshots (postscript) | pdf |
Lecture 15: Fictitious forces in rotating frames .	H9: Rotating frames (postscript) | pdf |
Lecture 16: Rigid bodies .	Optional reading - Inverted pendulum |