General

During AY 2014/15 Sem 1, all announcements for PC2132 will be posted here.
Students enrolled in PC2132 are advised to bookmark this page and are expected to check for announcements regularly.

Timetable

Lectures are held in LT 50 in UTown, Tuesdays and Fridays, 12:00-1:35pm.
First lecture on Tuesday, 12 August; last lecture on Friday, 14 November.
1st Class Test: Tuesday, 30 September, 12:05-1:30pm, in LT 31.
2nd Class Test: Tuesday, 28 October, 12:05-1:30pm, in LT 31.
Exam: Tuesday, 2 December, 1-3pm (date to be confirmed, venue to be announced).

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Assessment

20% Tutorial participation
30% Two class tests
50% Exam

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1st Class Test

Problems - Solutions - Scores sorted by identifier, by total score

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2nd Class Test

Problems - Solutions - Scores sorted by identifier, by total score

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Exam

Problems - Solutions

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Tutorial sessions

There are weekly tutorial sessions in groups of up to 18 students each; group composition, schedule, and venue to be announced; first sessions in week 2.

Problem sets are posted in the IVLE Workbin for PC2132.
In each problem set there is one Exercise marked for submission of a written solution. Each week, the solutions are collected before the Tuesday lecture.

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Lecture Notes and Textbooks

The lecture notes are posted in the IVLE Workbin for PC2132, one set for each lecture.
These notes are for the students enrolled in PC2132 only; distribution to others is not permitted.

Other than that, no particular textbook is assigned to the module. Students who wish to read/consult textbooks in addition are encouraged to do so, whereby any textbook of their liking is OK. There are many good books on classical mechanics, some more elementary, others more advanced, including the following:

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