Homework Assignments

Late assignments will be accepted through Wednesday December 10

Assignment 11: Due Friday, December 5, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 7: Random Systems

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 7.2, 7.12, 7.17

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 7.2, 7.14, 7.17

Assignment 10: Due Monday, November 24, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 6: Waves

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 6.1, 6.9, 6.18

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 6.5, 6.12, 6.19

Assignment 9: Due Wednesday, November 12, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 5: Potentials and Fields

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 5.5, 5.8, 5.11

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 5.7, 5.8, 5.16

Assignment 8: Due Monday, November 3, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 4: The Solar System

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 4.14, 4.17, 4.19

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 4.14, 4.18, 4.19

• Exercise 4.14: The trajectory of the moon is not what you might expect, see The Earth & Moon's path around the Sun and The Orbit of the Moon around the Sun is Convex! To generate this orbit the initial positions and velocities of the Moon and Earth must be chosen very precisely. One strategy is to compute the initial conditions for the Moon and Earth to orbit their common center of mass, and then add the center-of-mass motion in a Kepler orbit around the Sun.

Assignment 7: Due Monday, October 27, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 4: The Solar System

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 4.4, 4.8, 4.10

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 4.4, 4.8, 4.11

Assignment 6: Due Monday, October 20, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 3: Oscillatory Motion and Chaos

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 3.30, 3.34, 3.36

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 3.30, 3.34, 3.37

Assignment 5: Due Wednesday, October 8, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 3: Oscillatory Motion and Chaos

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 3.20, 3.23, 3.27

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 3.20, 3.22, 3.28

Assignment 4: Due Monday, September 29, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 3: Oscillatory Motion and Chaos

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 3.4, 3.7, 3.10

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 3.4, 3.7, 3.13

Assignment 3: Due Monday, September 22, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 2: Realistic Projectile Motion

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 2.13, 2.17, 2.19

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 2.13, 2.17, 2.21

Assignment 2: Due Monday, September 15, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 2: Realistic Projectile Motion

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 2.2, 2.4, 2.9

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 2.4, 2.5, 2.10

Assignment 1: Due Monday, September 8, 5:00 pm

• Chapter 1: A First Numerical Problem

  PHY 410:

  Exercises 1.1, 1.3, 1.6

  PHY 505:

  Exercises 1.3, 1.5, 1.6

Suggestions for completing the assignments

• Don't submit several pages of raw numerical data. Data sets should be presented graphically or summarized in a compact table of numbers.

• If you have written a program yourself, then submit a printout of the whole program or its interesting sections. If you have modified one of the supplied programs, indicate the sections you have modified on the printout.

• A nice example of a homework writeup by Dr. Gould of Clark University. Here is his LaTeX source code: sample.tex. Your writeup need not be as long as this one: just explain briefly and clearly what you have learned by completing each exercise.