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