Reading Response Week 6, Part 1 Classical Mechanics | Physical Systems and Applied Mathematics

Reading Response - Week 6, part 1 Classical Mechanics

Submit by 9am Mon. Oct. 31. 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 below. Please avoid fancy formatting. The week's Reading Response is split into two parts, with the first due Monday at 9am and the second due Thursday at 9am.

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7.5 Examples of Lagrange's Equations

Questions about Example 7.3?

Questions about Example 7.4?

Questions about Example 7.5?

Questions about Example 7.6?

Questions about Example 7.7?

7.6 Generalized Momenta and Ignorable Coordinates; 7.7 Conclusion

1) Big Concepts

2) Big Maths

No Examples

4) Questions/Confusion/What to spend time on?

7.8 More about Conservation Laws

1) Big Concepts

2) Big Maths

3) No Examples, but we will do problem 7.46 in class on Tuesday. Please look the problem over. No requirement to attempt the problem, but do ask any clarifying questions here to help me prepare my discussion.

4) Questions/Confusion/What to spend time on?

7.10 Lagrange Multipliers and Constraint Forces

1) Big Concepts

2) Big Maths

3) Questions about Example 7.8?

4) Questions/Confusion/What to spend time on?