PHYS2100 - Online material 2006

Course profile

Lecturers

• Karen Dancer (weeks 1 - 6)
  
• Taras Plakhotnik (weeks 7 - 9)
• Matthew Davis (weeks 10 - 13).

Problems

• Problem set 1 - due 5pm Friday 4th August 2006.
• Problem set 2 - due 5pm Friday 11th August 2006.
• Problem set 3 - due 5pm Friday 18th August 2006.
• Problem set 4 - due 5pm Friday 25th August 2006.
• Problem set 5 - not to be handed in.
• Relativity tutorial 1 - due 5pm Friday 8th September 2006.
• Relativity tutorial 2 - due 5pm Friday 15th September 2006. 
• Hamiltonian dynamics 1 - due 5pm Friday 6th October 2006.
• Hamiltonian dynamics 2 - due 5pm Friday 13th October 2006.
• Hamiltonian dynamics 3 - due 5pm Friday 20th October 2006.

Assignments

• Assignment 1 - due 5pm Friday 1st September 2006.
• Assignment 2 - due 5pm Friday 22nd September 2006.
• Assignment 3 part 1/2 - due 5pm Friday 27th October 2006.
• Assignment 3 part 2/2 - due 5pm Friday 27th October 2006.

Lecture notes

• Week 1
  
• Week 2
• Week 3
• Week 4
• Week 5
• Week 6
• Special Relativity - Lectures 1-2
• Special Relativity - Lectures 3-4
• Special Relativity - Lectures 5-6
• Hamiltonian dynamics 1
• Hamiltonian dynamics 2
• Hamiltonian dynamics 3
• Hamiltonian dynamics 4
• UPDATED (17/10/06) - Hamiltonian dynamics - errata
  

Other material

• UPDATED (17/10/06) - Special Relativity - List of formulae: This will be included in the exam paper
• Nonlinear maps: instructions, function mfiles.
• Driven pendulum: function mfile.  Use the "help poincare_pendulum" in matlab to find out how to use it.
• NEW - Solution to cone problem
• NEW - Check your marks
  

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