Course Syllabus pdf file

Lecture notes

Feynman Lectures

Part I: Classic Mechanics

Fundamental concepts

Lecture 1 : Physics as Natural Philosophy

Supplemental Material : Galileo Galilei Wikipedia

Supplemental Material : More is different

Lecture 2 : Vectors, scalar and cross products, rotations

Lecture 3 : Motion: Zeno's paradox, displacement, velocity and acceleration

Lecture 4 : Newton's laws of motion(I) -- Projectile motion with resistance

Lecture 5 : Newton's laws of motion(II) -- Oscillation

Supplemental Material : Forced oscillation, resonance

Lecture 6 : Newton's laws of motion (III) -- Keppler's problem

Lecture 7 : Galileo transformation -- Inertial and non-inertial frames

Conservation and symmetry

Lecture 8 : Conservation Law(I) – Mechanical Energy Conservation

Lecture 9 : More on energy

Lecture 10 : Conservation Law(II) – Momentum Conservation

Lecture 11 : Conservation Law(III) – Angular Momentum Conservation

Lecture 12 : Kepler problem

Lecture 13 : Rigid body(I) - Fixed Axis Rotation

Lecture 14 : Rigid body(II) - Euler Equation

Lecture 15 : Continous Mechanics(I) - Wave

Lecture 16 : Continous Mechanics(II) - Water Wave

Lecture 17 : Relativity – without light

Part II: Thermodyanmics and Statistical Mechanics

Lecture 18 : Kinetic theory of gas

Lecture 19 : Boltzmann and Maxwell distributions

Lecture 20 : The laws of Thermodynamics

Lecture 21 : Entropy (I) - Thermodynamic perspective

Lecture 22 : Entropy (II) - Statistical perspective

Lecture 23 : Entropy (III) - Zero-point entropy and the 3rd law of thermodynamics

Homework assignment

HW1 : Due on Sept 5, 2022

HW2 : Due on Sept 12, 2022

HW3 : Due on Sept 19, 2022

HW4 : Due on Sept 26, 2022

HW5 : Due on Oct 08, 2022

HW6 : Due on Oct 15, 2022

HW7 : Due on Oct 22, 2022

HW8 : Due on Oct 29, 2022

HW9 : Due on Nov 07, 2022

HW10 : Due on Nov 14, 2022

HW11 : Due on Nov 21, 2022

HW12 : Due on Nov 28, 2022

HW13 : Due on Dec 05, 2022

HW14 : Due on Dec 12, 2022

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