Course handouts

• Solutions to Assignment 2.
• Syllabus for the course.

Homework

Problems	Due Date
Assignment 1	Fri. Sept. 9
Assignment 2	Fri. Sept. 30
Assignment 3	Fri. Oct. 28

Exams

Midterm: Nov. 11

Here are solutions to the problems on the midterm.

Here is a list of topics covered on the midterm.

Final:

Useful Links

• Peter Olver's Introduction to the Calculus of Variations is a nice exposition which, in 27 pages, manages to summarize much of what we will do in this course.
• How many geodesics are there between two points on a cone?
• There is a good introductory discussion of the spherical pendulum on pages 47 to 55 of these notes on mechanics by Sebastian Müller at Bristol.