אתר הקורס: מכניקה ויחסות פרטית - סמסטר חורף תש"ף
  Mechanics and special relativity for physics majors - 77101 (Winter 2020/21)
General Info   
 Main Group (non-Talpiot) Lecturer:
  •  Prof. Nir Shaviv
    • e-mail: nir.shaviv /-\T mail.huji.ac.il
    • Reception hours: see schedule here or set by e-mail a day or two in advance
    • Office: Ross 217. Phone: 02-6585807
2nd Lecturer and Teacher Assistants:
Course Info:
Text books:
  • Berkeley physics course , vol.1 / Mechanics
  • מכניקה ("ספר ירוק") , האוניברסיטה הפתוחה תרגום של ברקלי
More relevant books
  •  Feynman Lectures on Physics - It is not the best text book (doesn't cover all the necessarily material for our course, and it isn't the best intro text), however, it does give a fresh perspective and is therefore excellent as a secondary source.
  •  מכניקה קלאסית ויחסותית, דוד אגמון - Good text book with emphasis on excellent exercises.
Grade Structure / Requirements:
  • Grade composition:
    • 80-100% Final Exam
    • 0-10% (non compulsory) Midterm. Can only help increase final grade.
    • 0-10% Exercises. Each Week counts as 1pt. Grade is average of best 10 exercise grades.
    • up to 4 bonus points for grading midterm (yours and 3 others).
Lectures
 Shaviv's Group Lecture Notes.
Homework
 Homework sheets and their solution will regularly appear in the moodle website.
Exams
 Previous Years:
2015/2016: Midterm with solution
2015/2016: Moed A and with solution
2015/2016: Moed B and with solution
2013/2014: Moed A Talpiot and solution
2013/2014: Moed A regular and solution
2013/2014: Moed B and solution
2011/2012: Moed A and solution
2011/2012: Moed B and solution
2007/2008: Moed A
2006/2007: Mid Term with Solution
2006/2007: Moed A for Talpiot, with solution
2006/2007: Moed A for non-Talpiot groups
2005/2006: Mode A with solution
2005/2006: Moed B with solution
2005/2006: Midterm and solution
2004/2005: Moed A and solution
2004/2005: Moed B with solution
Discussion Group
 Course discussion group can be found in the moodle website.
Other
Links
 Movies and Demonstrations

Harmonic Motion:
Forced Harmonic Oscillator
Collapse of the Tacoma Narrows bridge
Millennium Bridge Wobble

Rigid Body and Angular momentum:
Bicycle Wheel Gyroscope

Ficticious forces and non-inertial frames
Frames of Reference
Coriolis force on a merry-go-round, and another demonstration

Relativity
The Ultimate Speed
Life near the speed of light - Cosmos with Carl Sagan

More MIT physics demonstrations


 Last updated: Oct 27, 2019
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