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Physics 211 - Intermediate Mechanics is a course for honours
science and engineering science students at Simon Fraser University.
This page contains links to typed versions of the lectures delivered in
class by Dave Boal. In some cases, it takes more than a single class period
to deliver a given lecture listed below.
The lectures are stored as PDF files and can be read by Adobe
Acrobat Reader
(click to download a free copy from Adobe). Canadian spelling conventions are used.
Click to download the PDF file.
Copies of old exams are available for the following years.
The exams are stored in PDF format.
1998
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
Thanks to Alex Boal for typing and illustrating the lectures.
Lecture 1 - Kinematics
Lecture 2 - Newtonian mechanics
Lecture 3 - Velocity-dependent forces - I
Lecture 4 - Velocity-dependent forces - II
Lecture 5 - Oscillations: simple harmonic motion
Lecture 6 - Damped harmonic motion
Lecture 7 - Forced harmonic motion
Lecture 8 - Forces in three dimensions
Lecture 9 - Examples of 3D motion
Lecture 10 - Accelerated reference frames
Lecture 11 - Rotating coordinate systems
Lecture 12 - Effects of the Earth's rotation
Lecture 13 - Projectile motion on the Earth's surface
Lecture 14 - Central forces
Lecture 15 - Kepler's laws
Lecture 16 - Orbital energetics
Lecture 17 - Orbital stability
Lecture 18 - Many-particle systems
Lecture 19 - Collisions and conservation of momentum
Lecture 20 - Rigid-body motion
Lecture 21 - Moments of inertia
Lecture 22 - Rolling objects
Lecture 23 - Inertia tensor
Lecture 24 - Rotation about an arbitrary axis
Lecture 25 - Principal axes and Euler's equations
Lecture 26 - Torque-free rotation - body-fixed axes
Lecture 27/28 - Torque-free rotation - space-fixed axes
Lecture 29 - Rotation with torque - gyroscope
Lecture 30 - Wave equation
Lecture 31 - Standing and traveling waves
Lecture 32 - Wave power
Lecture 33 - Coupled oscillators
Supplementary lectures
Supplement #1 - Lorentz transformation
Supplement #2 - Rutherford scattering
Supplement #3 - Hamilton's variational principle
Supplement #4 - Lagrange's equations
Supplement #5 - Hamilton's equations
