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Posted: **Sat Mar 26, 2011 12:21 pm**

Reading: all of chapter 8 from the course text.

Exercises: 8.16 and 8.17.

Posted: **Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:24 pm**

For problem 8.16, do we need a parameter that defines the length of the pendulum?

Posted: **Mon Mar 28, 2011 5:31 pm**

thaller wrote:For problem 8.16, do we need a parameter that defines the length of the pendulum?

Yes, just call it "l" or something similar. It should have been included in the figure.

Posted: **Tue Mar 29, 2011 7:58 pm**

also for problem 8.17, should we assume there is no gravity?

Posted: **Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:24 pm**

thaller wrote:also for problem 8.17, should we assume there is no gravity?

That's fine. It doesn't affect the problem anyway.

Homework 9, due March 31, 2011.