General Physics (I) (2023 Fall)
Classic Mechanics and Thermodynamics



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(I) : Newton's laws of motion(II) -- Oscillation
  • Lecture 5(II): 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
  • Homework assignment

  • HW1 : Due Sept 5, 2023
  • HW2 : Due on Sept 12, 2023
  • HW3 : Due on Sept 18, 2022
  • HW4 : Due on Sept 27, 2022









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