Schedule


This is the schedule for the quarter. All videos, lecture notes, Jupyter notebooks, and scripts will be added here. The weekly topics may be adjusted throughout the course to fit the learning pace, and we will do our best to keep the homework due dates fixed. Check the schedule periodically for updates.

The basic flow of the course is as follows:

  • One or more lecture videos with accompanying lecture notes will be released on Mondays, starting the Monday before the first lecture and work session. URLs to these materials will be posted here in this schedule.
  • Homeworks will be released to Brightspace-Vocareum one week (or two weeks for some later homeworks) before they are due. Homeworks are due at 23:59 on the due date, typically Mondays.
  • You will have at least one work session before each homework assignment due date to ask get help.
  • You should have watched the lecture videos and ideally started the homework assignments before attending the lecture and work sessions.
  • During the work sessions you have free time to work on the assignments and the instructors will be present to answer questions and give ad hoc explanations on topics.
  • Homework solutions will be made available prior to a new homework.
  • Homework grades will be made available within two weeks (later homeworks require some manually grading).
  • Adjustments will be made for holidays that fall on due dates, video/homework releases, or work sessions.
Lecture # Date Topic Assignment Due Materials
1 M Feb 10

Lecture material release:

  • 1.1 Introduction & Problem Example
  • 1.2 Vocareum
  • 1.3 Jupyter & Python Introduction
  • 1.4 SymPy Introduction
 
1 W Feb 12 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
1 W Feb 12 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
2 M Feb 17

Lecture material release:

  • 2.1 Reference Frames & Orientation
  • 2.2 Vectors
  • 2.3 Vector Differentiation
HW00
2 W Feb 19 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
2 W Feb 19 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
3 M Feb 24

Lecture material release:

  • 3.1 Angular Kinematics
  • 3.2 Translational Kinematics
HW01
3 W Feb 26 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
3 W Feb 26 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
4 M Mar 03

Lecture material release:

  • 4 Configuration constraints
  • 4 Generalized coordinates
HW02
4 W Mar 05 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
4 W Mar 05 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
5 M Mar 10

Lecture material release:

  • 5.1 Motion constraints
  • 5.2 Generalized Speeds
  • 5.3 Degrees of Freedom
HW03
5 W Mar 12 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
5 W Mar 12 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
6 M Mar 17

Lecture material release:

  • 6 Mass and Mass Center
  • 6 Inertia Vector & Scalars
  • 6 Moments and products of inertia
  • 6 Inertia Matrix
HW04
6 W Mar 19 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
6 W Mar 19 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
7 M Mar 24

Lecture material release:

  • 7 Dyadics
  • 7 Parallel axis theorem
  • 7 Principal moments of inertia
  • 7 Angular Momentum
HW05
7 W Mar 26 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
7 W Mar 26 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
8 M Mar 31

Lecture material release:

  • 8 Forces & Torques
HW06
8 W Apr 02 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
8 W Apr 02 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
NA   Two week break Apr 07 -18    
NA F Apr 18 Good Friday    
NA M Apr 21 Easter Monday    
9 M Apr 21

Lecture material release:

  • 9 Partial Velocities
  • 9 Generalized Forces
HW07
9 R Apr 24 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
9 R Apr 24 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
NA S Apr 26 Koningsdag    
10 M Apr 28

Lecture material release:

  • 10 Kane's Eqs. (unconstrained)
HW08
10 R May 01 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
10 R May 01 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
NA M May 05 Liberation Day    
11 M May 05

Lecture material release:

  • 11 Integration (unconstrainted)
  • 11 2D Visualization
 
11 R May 08 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
11 R May 08 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
12 M May 12

Lecture material release:

  • 12.1 Kane's Eqs. (nonholonomic)
HW09
12 R May 15 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
12 R May 15 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
13 M May 19

Lecture material release:

  • 13.1 Kane's Eqs. (holonomic)
  • 13.2 Revealing noncontributing loads
HW10
13 R May 22 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
13 R May 22 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
NA R May 29 Ascension Day    
NA F May 30 Ascension Day    
14 M Jun 02

Lecture material release:

  • 14 Energy and Power
HW 11
14 R Jun 05 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
14 R Jun 05 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
NA M Jun 09 Whit Monday    
15 M Jun 09

Lecture material release:

  • 15 Lagrange's Equations
 
15 R Jun 12 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
15 R Jun 12 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
15 F Jun 13   HW 12  
16 TBA Exam review    
NA F Jun 27 Exam 9:00-12:00    
NA W Jul 16 Re-sit Exam 9:00-12:00