Newton's laws
The tendency of a body to remain in motion or at rest
What is inertia?
The instantaneous rate of change in velocity with respect to time
What is acceleration?
The rate of oscillation of a system in the absence of a driving force
What is the natural frequency?
The difference of kinetic and potential energy
What is the Lagrangian?
One of Dr. Lipp's cats
Who is Bacchus?
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Who is Vesta?
The constant of proportionality between force and acceleration
What is mass?
A reference frame that changes orientation with a point’s velocity
What is the path frame?
The part of a system response where both the homogeneous solution and particular solution are important
What is the transient response?
The horizontal line where potential energy is zero
What is the datum?
Dr. Lipp's field of study in grad school
What is nonlinear dynamics?
The principle or law that explains why momentum is conserved for a collision between point masses
What is Newton's 3rd law?
Number of independent coordinates required to fully describe a system’s configuration
What are degrees of freedom?
The dimensionless parameter that determines how fast oscillations die out
What is the damping ratio?
The branch of mechanics where EOM are derived from scalar quantities
What is analytical mechanics?
Dr. Lipp's undergraduate a cappella group
What is Out of the Blue?
A type of high-energy mechanics not explained by Newton’s laws
What is quantum mechanics?
The component of a body’s acceleration normal to the tangent of the path
What is centripetal acceleration?
The tendency of a vibratory system to oscillate at greater amplitudes at certain driving frequencies
What is resonance?
In analytical mechanics, a "projection" of an active force onto a degree of freedom
What is the generalized force?
The city where Dr. Lipp studied abroad
What is Berlin, Germany?
This construct is required for measuring acceleration in Newton’s 2nd law
What is an inertial reference frame?
Separates a time derivative into the component in the rotating frame and the component due to the rotation of a frame
What is the transport equation?
Configuration where a free vibratory system does not accelerate
What is static equilibrium?
French mathematician (and music theorist) whose principle Lagrange used to develop his equations
Who is Jean le Rond d'Alembert?
The 8:30 am class Dr. Lipp almost failed, due to poor attendance
What is linear algebra?