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 09

Lecture material release:

  • 1.1 Introduction & Problem Example
  • 1.2 Vocareum
  • 1.3 Jupyter & Python Introduction
  • 1.4 SymPy Introduction
 
1 W Feb 11 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
1 W Feb 11 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
2 M Feb 16

Lecture material release:

  • 2.1 Reference Frames & Orientation
  • 2.2 Vectors
  • 2.3 Vector Differentiation
HW00
2 W Feb 18 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
2 W Feb 18 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
3 M Feb 23

Lecture material release:

  • 3.1 Angular Kinematics
  • 3.2 Translational Kinematics
HW01
3 W Feb 25 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
3 W Feb 25 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
4 M Mar 02

Lecture material release:

  • 4 Configuration constraints
  • 4 Generalized coordinates
HW02
4 W Mar 04 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
4 W Mar 04 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
5 M Mar 09

Lecture material release:

  • 5.1 Motion constraints
  • 5.2 Generalized Speeds
  • 5.3 Degrees of Freedom
HW03
5 W Mar 11 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
5 W Mar 11 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
6 M Mar 16

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 18 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
6 W Mar 18 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
7 M Mar 23

Lecture material release:

  • 7 Dyadics
  • 7 Parallel axis theorem
  • 7 Principal moments of inertia
  • 7 Angular Momentum
HW05
7 W Mar 25 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
7 W Mar 25 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
8 M Mar 30

Lecture material release:

  • 8 Forces & Torques
HW06
8 W Apr 01 Lecture 13:45-14:15    
8 W Apr 01 Work Session 14:15-16:15    
NA   Two week break Apr 07 -18    
NA F Apr 03 Good Friday    
NA M Apr 06 Easter Monday    
9 M Apr 20

Lecture material release:

  • 9 Partial Velocities
  • 9 Generalized Forces
HW07
9 R Apr 23 Canceled for strike: Lecture 10:45-11:15    
9 R Apr 23 Canceled for strike: Work Session 11:15-13:15    
NA M Apr 27 Koningsdag    
10 M Apr 27

Lecture material release:

  • 10 Kane's Eqs. (unconstrained)
 
10 R Apr 30 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
10 R Apr 30 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
11 M May 04

Lecture material release:

  • 11 Integration (unconstrainted)
  • 11 2D Visualization
HW08
NA T May 05 Liberation Day    
11 R May 07 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
11 R May 07 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
12 M May 11

Lecture material release:

  • 12.1 Kane's Eqs. (nonholonomic)
HW09
12 M May 11 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
12 M May 11 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
NA R May 14 Ascension Day    
NA F May 15 Ascension Day    
13 M May 18

Lecture material release:

  • 13.1 Kane's Eqs. (holonomic)
  • 13.2 Revealing noncontributing loads
HW10
13 R May 21 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
13 R May 21 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
NA M May 25 Whit Monday    
14 M May 25

Lecture material release:

  • 14 Energy and Power
 
14 T May 26      
14 R May 28 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
14 R May 28 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
15 M Jun 01

Lecture material release:

  • 15 Lagrange's Equations
HW11
15 R Jun 04 Lecture 10:45-11:15    
15 R Jun 04 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
16 M Jun 08      
16 R Jun 11 Exam review 10:45-11:15    
16 R Jun 11 Work Session 11:15-13:15    
NA M Jun 15   HW12  
NA F Jun 26 Exam 9:00-12:00    
NA W Jul 15 Re-sit Exam 9:00-12:00