Physics 311 Resources
In-class Activities
Tutorials
Tutorial 1
- Velocity and Acceleration in Polar Coordinates
Tutorial 2
- Newton's Laws and Velocity-Dependent Forces
Tutorial 3
- Air Resistance
Pretest
Tutorial 4
- Mathematica Tutorial – NDSolve
Tutorial 5
- Momentum (Warmup)
Tutorial 6
- Line Integrals and Work
Tutorial 7
- Conservative Forces and Equipotential Diagrams
Pretest
Tutorial 8
- Simple Harmonic Motion
Tutorial 9
- Simple Harmonic Motion - 2-Dimensional
Tutorial 10
- Simple Harmonic Motion - Phase Diagrams
Tutorial 11
- Damped Harmonic Motion - Motion Graphs
Tutorial 12
- Damped Harmonic Motion - Modeling Real Data
Data file (ball_oil.csv)
Logger Pro file (ball_oil.cmbl)
Ball in Oil Movie (ball_oil.mov)
Tutorial 13
- Damped Harmonic Motion - Energy Loss
Tutorial 14
- Damped Harmonic Motion - Phase Diagrams
Tutorial 15
- Forced Harmonic Motion -
Tutorial 16
- Generalized Coordinates
Tutorial 17
- The Lagrangian
Tutorial 18
- The Lagrangian for a massive string
Tutorial 19
- Lagrangian Mechanics