Analytical Mechanics

Additional Information - Spring 2007 (Updated 10 May 07)

Chapter 1: Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates Systems (pdf)

Chapter 2 :

a) Introduction to Mechanics (pdf);

b) Particle freefalling in a viscous fluid (pdf);

c) MathCad rkfixed differential equation solver example (pdf)

d) MathCad set up for problem C2.1(pdf)

Chapter 3:

a) Damped Harmonic Motion (pdf)

b) Driven Damped Harmonic Motion (pdf)

c) Driven Damped Harmonic Motion example (pdf)

d) Damped HO sin x vs. x (pdf)

e) Damped HO sin x expanded vs sin x (pdf)

f) Damped HO sin x vs x; gamma = .1 (pdf)

g) Damped HO gamma = .1 (pdf)

h) Damped HO gamma = .3 (pdf)

i) Damped HO gamma = .5 (pdf)

j) Damped HO compare gamma = .05 vs. gamma = .25 (pdf)

k) Driven Damped HO w0 = 3.13 (pdf)

l) Driven Damped HO w = 2 * w0 (pdf)

m) Driven damped HO w = 3 * w0 (pdf)

Chapter 5: (Updated 02Apr07)

Part 1 pdf:

Part2 pdf:

Chapter 6:

pdf notes (Updated 08 May 07)

Chapter 7: (Updated 16 May 07)

Part1 pdf:

Part2 pdf:

Part3 pdf:

Part4 pdf:

3_Body problem pdf:

Supplementary Information:

a) MathCad Programming INTRO (Updated 13 Mar 07)

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