| Month | Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat | Sun | Outline | Chapts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| September | 30 | 31 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Newtonian Mechanics, Variational Calculus | |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Generalized Coordinates, Hamilton, Lagrange Eqn. | ||
| 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | Symmetries, Conservation, Central Force | ||
| 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | Hamiltonian, Least Action, Canonical Transformation, Poisson Bracket | ||
| October | |||||||||
| 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | Hamilton-Jacobi, Action-Angle, Adiabiatic Invariance, Liouville's Theorem | ||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Rigid Bodies, Tensors, Rotation | ||
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | Rigid Body Dynamics | ||
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | Linear Oscillations | ||
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 | Non-linear Oscillations, Secular Perturbation | ||
| November | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | Non-linear Systems, Chaos, Lagrange Density | |
| 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | Continuum Systems, Waves | ||
| 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | Stress-energy Tensor, Conservation Theorems | ||
| 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | Special Topics | ||
| December | 29 | 30 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | reading period | |
| 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | Final Exam |