Portfolios Wiki whitepapers:touchstone http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/ 2020-01-26T19:12:28-08:00 Portfolios Wiki http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/ http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/lib/images/favicon.ico text/html 2010-07-13T20:45:25-08:00 whitepapers:touchstone:start http://sites.science.oregonstate.edu/portfolioswiki/whitepapers:touchstone:start?rev=1279079125 FIXME These are raw notes for an eventual wiki page. Please return later. Classical mechanics can be summarized as techniques for finding the equations of motion for a system. In the classical mechanics capstone, a unique opportunity presents itself. The first part of the course can be spent reviewing topics students saw in the lower division and paradigms courses: Newton's laws, energy conservation, non-uniform circular motion, oscillations, center of mass, etc. While reviewing, it's possibl…