Updated on:
Mon, 13 Jun 2005, 10:32:39 EDT
Created on: Thu, 21 Apr 2005, 17:50:55 EDT
EGM 3400 and EGM 3401 Dynamics, Summer 2005, Dr. L. Vu-Quoc
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Instructor :
Dr. L. Vu-Quoc,
135 NEB, Tel: 392-6227, E-mail: vu-quoc AT ufl.edu
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Classroom: 303 MAE-A
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Class time:
Section 7752 (EGM 3400) and Section 7753 (EGM 3401):
MWF, summer period 5 (2:00pm - 3:15pm)
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Office hours:
MWF, 3:30pm - 4:30pm
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TA's:
Gus Roman, jabronie AT ufl.edu
Bhupinder Singh, bsingh AT ufl.edu
Yi-Chung Lin, akila AT ufl.edu
Office: 107 NEB
Office hours:
Mon (3 hours): 9am-11am, 1pm-2pm, Gus
Tue (4 hours): 10am-12pm, Yi-Chung; 3:30pm-5:30pm, Bhupinder
Wed (3 hours): 10am-12pm, Yi-Chung; 1pm-2pm, Gus
Thu (4 hours): 10am-12pm, Yi-Chung; 3:30pm-5:30pm, Bhupinder
Fri (4 hours): 9am-11pm, Gus; 11pm-1pm, Bhupinder
Quotation:
"It is too bad that it has to be mathematics, and that mathematics is
hard for some people. It is reputed---I do not know if it is
true---when one of the kings was trying to learn geometry from
Euclid
he complained that it was difficult. And Euclid said, 'there is no
royal road to geometry'. And there is NO royal road (to Dynamics as
well). Physicists
cannot make a conversion to any other language. If you want to learn
about nature, to appreciate nature, it is necessary to understand the
language that she speaks in. She offers her information only in one
form; we are not so unhumble as to demand that she change before we pay
any attention."
Richard P. Feynman,
The
Character of Physical Law, p.52.
Quotation:
``If the student had no opportunity in school to familiarize himself
with the
varying emotions of the struggle for the solution,
his
mathematical (dynamics) education failed at the most vital point.''
George Polya,
How to solve it.
Quotation:
"When I compare our high schools to what I see when I'm traveling
abroad, I am terrified for our work force of tomorrow. In math and
science, our fourth graders are among the top students in the world. By
eighth grade, they're in the middle of the pack. By 12th grade, U.S.
students are scoring near the bottom of all industrialized nations. . .
. The percentage of a population with a college degree is important,
but so are sheer numbers. In 2001, India graduated almost a million
more students from college than the United States did. China graduates
twice as many students with bachelor's degrees as the U.S., and they
have six times as many graduates majoring in engineering. In the
international competition to have the biggest and best supply of
knowledge workers, America is falling behind."
Bill Gates in
The
World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century by Thomas L.
Friedman, Nov 2004.
Bestsellers
(top 100) on bestbookbuys.com.
Wired:
...what advice should we give to our kids?
Thomas Friedman:
When I was growing up, my parents told me, "Finish your dinner. People
in China and India are starving." I tell my daughters, "Finish your
homework. People in India and China are starving for your job."
NY
Times book review:
"Bill Gates explains the meaning of this transformation best. Thirty
years ago, he tells Friedman, if you had to choose between being born a
genius in Mumbai or Shanghai and an average person in Poughkeepsie, you
would have chosen Poughkeepsie because your chances of living a
prosperous and fulfilled life were much greater there. ''Now,'' Gates
says, ''I would rather be a genius born in China than an average guy
born in Poughkeepsie.''"
Exam dates and time:
See
Contents and schedule.
Academic Honesty:
All students admitted to the University of Florida have signed a
statement of academic honesty committing themselves to be honest
in all academic work and understanding that failure to comply with
this commitment will result in disciplinary action.
This statement is a reminder to uphold your obligation as a student
at the University of Florida and to be honest in all work submitted
and exams taken in this class and all others.
ASME ethics web page: Code of ethics, etc.
Accommodations for Disabilities:
Students with disabilities who are requesting classroom accommodation
must first register with the Dean of Students Office. The Dean of
Students Office will provide documentation to the student who must
then provide this documentation to the Instructor when requesting
accommodations.
NOTE: Please reload often
all web pages to your browser, since I am continously adding new materials
to these web pages.
Additional remarks on lectures: (in
reverse chronological order)
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Tsunamis
and Earthquakes: What Physics is Interesting?, David Stevenson,
Physics Today, Jun 2005, pp.10-11: You have the knowledge from this course
to understand the first half of p.10 (up to the "WKB approximation").
I will explain more in class.
There is also a mentioning of "Earth ringing and wobbling"; see the
Science article on
Earth free oscillations below.
Mon, 13 Jun 2005.
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Earth's
Free Oscillations Excited by the 26 December 2004 Sumatra-Andaman
Earthquake, Park et al, Science, Vol 308, Issue 5725, 1139-1144 ,
20 May 2005: An interesting example of Earth vibrations due to
earthquakes, as a motivation for the topic on vibrations at the end of
the course.
Mon, 13 Jun 2005.
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If
big quake hits off coast, tsunami could be gigantic Geophysicist
charts wave heights from Northwest to Baja,
San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Jun 05.
Mon, 13 Jun 2005.
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