google meet link (video lectures)
** office hours now: Monday 1-2, Wednesday 1-2 **
Part1: lecture 1 lecture 2 lecture 3 lecture 4 lecture 5 lecture 6 lecture 7 lecture 8 lecture 9
some notes on special functions, Albouy on d'Alembert's principle , T^2 on rigid bodies and tides
Part2: lecture 10 lecture 11 lecture 12 lecture 13 lecture 14 lecture 15 lecture 16 lecture 17 lecture 18 lecture 19 lecture 20
survey of Newton's resistance problem. Wolfram on Poinsot . Moeckel and Montgomery on shape space. Some notes on the direct method.
Part3: lecture 21 lecture 22 lecture 23 lecture 24 lecture 25 lecture 26 lecture 27 lecture 28 lecture 29 lecture 30 lecture 31
some notes on differential forms. Geiges on Huygens.
homework 1 (1'er Sept.) homework 2 (15 Sept.) Solutions: 1 , 2
homework 3 (1'er Oct.) homework 4 (27 Oct.) Solutions: 3 , 4
homework 5 (4 Dic.) Solutions: 5
some links:
Playing pool with pi (Galerpin): article , video1 , video2
Tennis racket theorem: in space
A talk on billiards, magnetic billiards
three-body stuff: Choreographies, Sitnikov, Solar system, Pythagorean 3bp, IMCCE
M. Levi's page