PHY181: Intermediate Mechanics

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Class Meetings:

Time: Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:55 to 12:45
Location: Physics 154

Recitations:

Time: Thursday 6:00 to 8:00
Location: Physics 235

Instructor: Steffen A. Bass

Office: Physics 261-D
Phone: 660-2479
Email: bass@phy.duke.edu
Office hours: Wednesday: 09:00 to 10:30 and Friday 09:00 to 10:30, or by appointment

Recommended reading:

Textbooks most useful for the course:

Classical Dynamics of Particles and Systems, 5th Edition, by J.B Marion and S.T. Thornton (Brooks/Cole 2004).
Classical Mechanics: Systems of Particles and Hamiltonian Dynamics, 1st edition, by Walter Greiner (Springer Verlag, New York, 2003)

other helpful textbooks:

Mathematical Methods for Physicists, 4th Edition, by Arfken and Weber (Academic Press, 1995)
Mathematical Handbook of Formulas and Tables, 2nd edition, Schaum's outlines, by Murray R. Spiegel and John Liu

for those who like to be challenged:

Classical Mechanics, 3rd edition, by H. Goldstein, C. Poole, J. Safko (Addison Wesley Publishing Co.)