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EA3 System Dynamics, Spring Quarter 2023

Website: tinyurl.com/ea3nu

Instructors, TAs, and Sections

  • Section 21, 10-10:50 MWF, Tech M345; Tuesday, Tech M345
    • Instructor: Prof. Kevin Lynch, kmlynch@northwestern.edu
    • TAs: Shuting Lai, ShutingLai2023@u.northwestern.edu; Dono Toussaint, DonoToussaint2027@u.northwestern.edu; Asma Meem, asmameem2026@u.northwestern.edu
  • Section 20, 11-11:50 MWF, Pancoe Auditorium; Tuesday, Frances Searle 1421
    • Instructor: Prof. Jeremy Keys, jeremy.keys@northwestern.edu
    • TAs: Ayesha Ahmed, ayesha.ahmed1@northwestern.edu; Haklae Lee, haklae.lee@northwestern.edu
  • Section 23, 1-1:50 MWF, Pancoe Auditorium; Tuesday, Annenberg G15
    • Instructor: Prof. Cheng Sun, c-sun@northwestern.edu
    • TAs: Caralyn Collins, CaralynCollins2024@u.northwestern.edu; Shizhou Jiang, shizhou.jiang@northwestern.edu
  • Section 22, 2-2:50 MWF, Pancoe Auditorium; Tuesday, Tech L211
    • Instructor: Prof. Sandip Ghosal, s-ghosal@northwestern.edu
    • TAs: Rui Li, ruili2024@u.northwestern.edu; Nibir Pathak, NibirPathak2021@u.northwestern.edu

Instructors:

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TAs:

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Course Summary

EA3 focuses on the modeling of dynamic systems, the reduction of models to differential equations of motion, and some exploration of the system behavior relating to the solution of those equations.

The goal is to learn system modeling across disparate physical domains (mechanical and electrical systems). We will typically proceed using the following steps:

  • to understand the elements of each domain (e.g., spring, capacitor; or force, voltage)
  • to express precisely the way in which the elements interact (e.g., free-body diagrams, circuit diagrams)
  • to reduce the idealized systems to equations
  • to understand the behavior of the system by solving equations numerically or analytically

There will be a strong emphasis on understanding how physical processes are described by mathematical equations.

Course Policies

Supportive Class Environment

All members of this class (instructors, TAs, students) are expected to contribute to a respectful, inclusive, and supportive environment for every other member of the class.

We are all partners in your education; help us help you get the most out of this class. Please engage during class meetings.

Honor Code

You are encouraged to discuss the material with the instructor, course assistants, and your classmates, but you are not allowed to copy answers or code or share your answers or code with others. Anyone copying answers or code, or providing answers or code, or becoming aware of others doing so without reporting to the instructor, is in violation of the honor code.

Academic Support and Learning Advancement (ASLA)

Northwestern's Academic Support and Learning Advancement office offers peer-guided study groups, drop-in peer tutoring, individual and group peer academic coaching, and consultations to help students navigate their academic paths and refine their study strategies.

Course Schedule and Quizzes

Lectures MWF by the instructors. Tuesday discussion sections led by the TAs, primarily focused on solving problems.

There will be three in-class 50-minute quizzes, on

  • Monday April 24
  • Monday May 15
  • Friday June 2 (last day of class)

Students must attend the quiz in their own section, and the quizzes in each section will be different. There is no final exam. No electronic devices (phones, tablets, laptops, watches, etc.) allowed during quizzes. Bring a pencil with an eraser. No notes or scratch paper.

Quizzes focus mostly on recent material (e.g., material not covered on previous quizzes), but they may require anything from the course up until the most recent homework.

Partial credit may be awarded, so make sure your thought process is clear in your answer. If you just write an answer, and it is wrong, you will get no credit. If you just write an answer, and it is correct but not obvious to us where the answer came from, you may not get credit. We strive for consistency in awarding partial credit, so requests for more partial credit will not be considered. The only way to ensure full credit is to get the answer correct and to be clear about how you arrived at it.

If there is an error grading your quiz, you may request a regrade by typing a clear explanation and turning it in to an instructor or TA at the next class after the quiz was returned to you. We keep scans of your quizzes, so you do not need to return the quiz itself. If a regrade is requested, your score may go up or down on any question on the quiz.

Homework

Homeworks are due each Wednesday at 9 PM and must be submitted electronically through Canvas. Late assignments are not accepted. No exceptions, so please don't ask. Your lowest homework grade will be dropped from the calculation of your homework score.

Grading

The three quizzes count for 90% of your class grade. Homeworks account for the remaining 10%. Test scores and final grades are assigned in each section independently of the other sections. So if your homework and test score average in section A is 75% and your friend's in section B is 85%, your friend's final grade will not necessarily be higher than yours.

Syllabus and Web Textbook

General Introduction

Mechanical Systems

Electrical Systems

Reference