Physics 374 Schedule
(Tentative)

Class Class number Reading Assignments Due Content
(date due)
Week 1        
1-Sep 1     Surveys
Week 2        
6-Sep 2     Introduction
8-Sep 3   HW 1 Introduction to Mathematica
Week 3:        
12-Sep 4     Dimensional analysis 
13-Sep 5     Natural scales, estimation
15-Sep 6   HW 2 Taylor series
Week 4        
19-Sep 7     Vectors: Math
20-Sep 8     Vectors: Physics
22-Sep 9   HW 3 Newton's laws
Week 5        
26-Sep 10     Numerical methods for ODEs: Euler
27-Sep 11     Numerical methods for ODEs: 1/2 step
29-Sep 12   HW 4 Work, dot product
Week 6        
3-Oct 13     Energy,line integrals
4-Oct 14     ODEs, SHO, undamped
6-Oct 15   HW 5 Review
Week 7         
10-Oct 16     Exam 1
11-Oct 17     Coupled oscillators: solution
13-Oct 18   HW 6 Go over Exam 1
Week 8         
17-Oct 19     Complex numbers and solving ODEs
18-Oct 20     Mathematica 1
20-Oct 21   HW 6 Damped driven
21-Oct       Exam 1 Makeup
Week 9        
24-Oct 22     Coupled oscillators: setup
25-Oct 23     Coupled oscillators: solution
27-Oct 24   HW 7 Coupled oscillators: interpretation
Week 10         
31-Oct 25     Dirac notation
1-Nov 26     Mathematica 2
3-Nov 27   HW 8 Linear Spaces
Week 11        
7-Nov 28     Transverse oscillators
8-Nov 29     Examples
10-Nov 30   HW 9 Waves on a string: wave equation
Week 12         
14-Nov 31     Standing waves: Fourier series
15-Nov 32     Completeness and Pseudobasis
17-Nov 33   HW 10 Fourier Transforms
Week 13         
21-Nov 34     Exam 2
22-Nov 35      
Week 14        
28-Nov 36      
29-Nov 37      
1-Dec 38   HW 11  
2-Dec       Exam 2 Makeup
Week 15         
5-Dec 39      
6-Dec 40      
8-Dec 41   HW 12  
Week 16         
12-Dec 42      
13-Dec 43   HW 13  
         
15-Dec       Final Exam (8:00-12:00)
RETURNS
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Edward F. Redish
Department of Physics
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: (301) 405-6120
Email: redish@physics.umd.edu
Last revision 8. November 2005.