You can access the Week 2 Classical Mechanics Reading Response here.

Submit by 9am Mon. Oct. 3. Your answers should be brief! Otherwise this will take hours to complete. Type up your answers in a separate text file that you should save with a useful file name, then copy and paste those answers into the text boxes in the form. I have the sense that this might be too big an assignment, so I’ll ask you about your experience on Monday. It might be the case that trying to cover the whole week’s reading on one Reading Response is not actually manageable, in which case we’ll figure out a new plan.

The questions generally follow this form:

1. Big Concept: For the relevant sections, what are the main physics concepts/ideas? Make sure to also note which (if any) physics concepts are new to you. (Try to just use words here and minimize invoking equations, but don’t stress if you find it more convenient to use or refer to an equation.)
2. Big Math: For these sections, what are the major mathematical tools/formulas? Make sure to also note which (if any) math concepts or methods are new to you. Here, feel free to refer to equation numbers or page numbers, and do your best to convey the meaning of the equations in everyday language. Again, don’t stress if you need to be technical. You should make sure that you have the important equations clearly written out and explained in your notes, though.
3. Examples: As specifically as you can, describe any challenges you had in understanding the Examples in these sections.
4. Questions: Describe in detail your questions/confusions from these sections.

I’ve grouped related sections together:

• 2.4 Quadratic Air Resistance
• 2.5 Motion of a Charge in a Uniform Magnetic Field, 2.6 Complex Exponentials, 2.7 Solution for the Charge in a B Field
• 3.1 Conservation of Momentum, 3.2 Rockets
• 3.3 The Center of Mass
• 3.4 Angular Momentum for a Single Particle, 3.5 Angular Momentum for Several Particles
• 4.1 Kinetic Energy and Work, 4.2 Potential Energy and Conservative Forces