Text: Jens M. Knudsen, Poul G. Hjorth: Elements of Newtonian Mechanics, 3rd edition, Springer-Verlag 2000
1.1 Introduction ����������� Free Fall ��������� Definite Integration ������������������� Problem 1.6
1.2 Harmonic Oscillator ��������� Total Energy �� Visualize Motion��������� Problem 1.12
1.3 Damped Harmonic Motion ������������ Weak and Strong Damping ���� Critical Damping� ������� Energy in the Damped HO������� Quality factor derivation
1.4 Driven Harmonic Oscillator ��������� Solution������������ Discussion������� Problem 15.4
1.5 Chaos in the Duffing Oscillator ��� Poincare Section���������� Maple-demo
1.6 Work and Energy in1D Motion�������������������� Problem 2.4
1.7 Example: Free Fall towards the Sun��������� Problem 2.9
1.8 Conservation of Linear Momentum������������ Problem 2.17
1.9 Gravitational and Inertial Mass
1.10 Galilei Transformation������������� Problem 4.2
2.1 Charged Particle in a Magnetic Field������� Solution
2.2 Earth�s Motion������ Cross Product��������������� Problem 5.1
2.3 Accelerated Reference Frames���� Transformation������������� Transformation(�)����� Transformation Results
2.4 Einstein�s Equivalence Principle��������������� Problem 6.2
2.5 Centrifugal Force���������������� Problem 6.4
2.6 Tidal Forces���������� Ocean Tides
2.7 Coriolis Force������� Problem 6.6������������������� Demo
2.8 Foucault Pendulum ������������ Solution������������ Detail������������ Maple-demo
3.1 Work and Energy�� Problem 8.6
3.2 Conservative Force Fields������������� curl F = 0��������� Stokes� Theorem ������������� Problem 8.20 (own)
3.3 Gravitational Potential Energy Calculation����������� Solid Sphere��� Sun�s Self-Energy�������� Problem 8.4
3.4 Centre-of-Mass Theorem���������������� Problem 9.1���� Problem 9.6
3.5 Angular Momentum������������ Kepler�s 2nd Law
3.6 Effective Potential in the Kepler Problem
3.7 Angular Momentum in a Many-Body System�������� Demo1�������������� Demo2
3.8 Classical Spin of a Rigid Body���� Problem 15.1
4.1 Rigid-body rotation basics������������� Rotational kinetic energy��������� Problem 11.20 (own)
4.2 Moments of inertia about different axes���
4.3 Torsion pendulum and physical pendulum������������� Problem 11.22 (own)
4.4 Arbitrary rigid body in rotation around fixed axis
4.5 Calculation of moments of inertia�������������� Problem 11.21 (own)
4.6 Equation of motion for rotation about fixed axis� Rotational energy consideration
4.7 Example: Atwood machine������������ Problem 11.23 (own)���������������� Problem 11.7
4.8 Example: when L and w are not aligned
4.9 Example: precession in the gyroscope����� Demo�� Demo
4.10 The Inertia tensor
4.11 Euler�s equations���� Derivation������� Maple-demo
Tumbling textbook�Conservation laws Mathematical Detail
4.12 Principal axes determination example��� General case
4.13 Gyroscope������������ Simple cases����������������� Maple-demo Problem 13.1; Problem 13.1(cont)
Nutation in the Gyroscope��� Energy Consideration
