PHY181: Intermediate Mechanics

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Class Meetings:

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

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Recitations:

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

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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

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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.)