Phy206 Assigned Problems and Exercises

Web-Exercise 1:  Find the course page on the internet and email it (or its location) to me.
Web-Exercise 2:  Locate and email to me a page giving specifics (mirror diameter, focal length, cost) for the Keck telescopes.

Problem Set #1, due Monday, 3 July:  Ch. 18  -  8, 32, 42, 51, 52; Ch. 19 - 9, 22; and

    Supplementary exercise 1:  Solve the two elliptical orbit equations, given in class, for vx and vy .
    Supplementary exercise 2:  Use your results from Exercise 1 and find the kinetic energy for the satellite.
    Supplementary exercise 3:  Use your results from Exercise 2 to show that E=K.E. - GmM/r is a constant.

Problem Set #2, due Friday, 7 July:  Ch. 19 - 41, 50, 61, 67, 103.

Problem Set #3, due Monday, 10 July:  Ch. 20 - 13, 20, 35, 36, 49.

Problem Set #4, due Friday, 14 July:  Ch. 13 - 45, 50;  Ch. 15 - 7, 14, 17, 27, 41, 73.

Problem Set #5, due Thursday, 20 July:  Ch. 16 - 3, 21, 31, 53, 91, 95.

Problem Set #6, due Monday, 24 July:  Ch. 35 - 3, 23, 32, 33, 35.

Problem Set #7, due Tuesday, 1 Aug:  Ch. 34 -  23, 45, 83, 122;  Ch. 17 - 3, 15, 23, 32, 36, 37.