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The instructor's lecture notes will usually be posted at least a few days before the lecture.  An updated version of each set of notes may appear shortly before or after the corresponding lecture.

Schedule

Lecture 1    (Syllabus)
Lecture 2    (Particle Physics / Atomic Sizes)
Lecture 3    (Center-of-Mass and Motion)
Lecture 4    (Motion in 1 Dimension, Part I)
Lecture 5    (Motion in 1 Dimension, Part II)
Lecture 6    (Vectors)
Lecture 7    (Newton's 3 Laws of Motion)
Lecture 8    (Newton's Second Law with a Constant Force)

Lecture 9    (Physical Forces I -- Gravity and Drag Forces)
Lecture 10    (Physical Forces II -- Contact Forces)
Lecture 11    (Equilibrium Applications of Newton's 2nd Law)
Lecture 12    (Nonequilibrium Applications of Newton's 2nd Law)
Lecture 13    (Uniform Circular Motion)
Lecture 14    (Kinetic Energy and Work)
Lecture 15    (Potential Energy and Conservative Forces)
Lecture 16    (Applications of the Work Energy Theorem / Power)
Lecture 17    (Simple Harmonic Oscillator)
Lecture 18    (Motion and Potential Energy Graphs)

Lecture 19    (Damped Harmonic Oscillator / Attractors)
Lecture 20    (Driven Damped Harmonic Oscillator / Resonance)
Lecture 21    (Deterministic Chaos / Period Doubling)
Lecture 22    (Chaos and Population Dynamics -- Ricker Equation)
Lecture 23    (Chaos -- Control / Low Dimensionality vs High Dimensionality)
Lecture 24    (Fluid Statics, Part I)
Lecture 25    (Fluid Statics, Part II)
Lecture 26    (Fluid Dynamics, Part I)
Lecture 27    (Fluid Dynamics, Part II)
Lecture 28    (Fluid Dynamics, Part III)

Lecture 29    (Diffusion)
Lecture 30    (Temperature, Internal Energy, and Heat)
Lecture 31    (Energy Distributions and Temperature)
Lecture 32    (The First Law of Thermodynamics, Part I)
Lecture 33    (The First Law of Thermodynamics, Part II)
Lecture 34    (Heat Engines and the Second Law of Thermodynamics)
Lecture 35    (Entropy, Part I)
Lecture 36    (Entropy, Part II)

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