Classical Mechanics – Taylor Chapter 1 – Newton’s Laws of Motion

This is a lecture summarizing Taylor’s Chapter 1 – Newton’s Laws of Motion. This is part of a series of lectures for Phys 311 & 312 Classical Mechanics I & II for physics majors taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. This is from one cold take of a physics lecture and is not heavily edited.

If you would like to review these topics at an introductory level please see videos for introductory classical mechanics from 2023

or older videos from 2022

Both of those playlists follow the OpenStax University Physics textbook.

0:00 Introduction
9:29 Coordinate Systems/Vectors
15:32 Vector Addition/Subtraction
17:50 Vector Products
44:20 Differentiation of Vectors
54:40 (Aside) Limitations of Classical Mechanics
58:12 Reference frames
1:03:04 Mass
1:04:17 Units and Notation
1:06:20 Newton’s 1st and 2nd Laws
1:23:34 Newton’s 3rd Law
1:36:53 (Example Problem) Block on Slope
1:49:54 2D Polar Coordinates
1:29:21 (Example Problem) Oscillating Skateboard