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

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

Part II: Thermodyanmics and Statistical Mechanics

Lecture 15 : The Kinetic Theory of Gases

Lecture 16 : Temperature and Distribution

Lecture 17 : Boltzmann and Maxwell distributions

Lecture 18 : Black body radiation & random walk

Lecture 19 : The Laws of Thermodynamics

Lecture 20 : Entropy

Lecture 21 : States variables

Lecture 22 : Analytical Thermal

Lecture 23 : Statistical Thermodynamics

Lecture 24 : The third law

Lecture 25 : Applications

Homework assignment

Homework 1 : Due Sept 5, 2023

Homework 2 : Due on Sept 12, 2023

Homework 3 : Due on Sept 18, 2023

Homework 4 : Due on Sept 27, 2023

Homework 5 : Due on Oct 9, 2023

Homework 6 : Due on Oct 16, 2023

Homework 7 : Due on Oct 30, 2023

Homework 8 : Due on Nov 20, 2023

Homework 9 : Due on Nov 29, 2023

Homework 10 : Due on Dec 4, 2023

Homework 11 : Due on Dec 11, 2023

Homework 12 : Due on Dec 18, 2023

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