The Final Exam: on Monday December 13, 11:15 -- 1:45, Frey 217
The solution
The exam and its solution are here
The basic content is
- Basic Mechanics, actions, magnetic and electric fields, and accelerating frames, etc could appear as part of other problems. Euler angles, rigid body etc will not be on the exam .
- Oscillations: linear, non-linear, parametric resonance, driven, damped, near a resonance etc., normal modes, driven normal modes. Green functions. This is the single most important topic on the exam.
- Hamiltonian mechanics, phase space, poisson brackets, infinitessimal and finite canonical transforms, adiabatic invariance
- Elements of Continuum Mechanics
- From a chain of springs, to the action of a string.
- Dispersion and motion of wave packets with dispersion
- Varying the action, the Euler-Lagrange equations, and the canonical stress tensor. (Reflection of waves not on the exam)
Other Items
- You may bring a one page front and back list of formulas, though it really should not be necessary.
Past Exams
The old exams are good way to study. But some things which we covered in class and homework, never made its way onto past exams exam. You are responsible for these topics as well.