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PHYSICS 206
MECHANICS
Birger Bergersen
This page contains links to material presented in class January-April 2002.
Some of the lecture sections
listed contains material from more than one, some for less than one lecture. There is also a number
problems that mostly constitute assignments and exams from
the winter sessions 1999- 2002.
The notes will be modified
from time to time to correct for typos and other errors, awkward
formulations etc. Therefore, you are advised not to make a hard copy until you actually
need it.
Readers of these notes are encouraged to send comments to
birger@physics.ubc.ca
My postal address is:
Department of Physics and Astronomy
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, B.C. Canada V6T 1Z1
Telephone: (604) 822-2754
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- LECTURES.
- PDF version.
- Postscript version.
- Maple files
- Working with vectors in Maple.
- Trajectories in phase plane.
- Solving differential equations with Maple..
- Vector fields
- Vector calculus.
- Maple brachistochrone.
- Elliptic integrals. Trajectories in phase plane.
- Stability analysis.
- Stroboscopic map.
- Eigenvalues and eigenvectors of matrices with Maple.
- Effective potential method for symmetric top
- List of commands used in Maplefiles
- Web-links.
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Birger Bergersen
2002-09-01