Mechanics 1 Lecture, Fall 2025/26

Lecturer: Dániel Varjas

Location: Room F3M01 (seminar room of the Theoretical Physics department, building F staircase III. ground floor to the right, then left)

Time: Monday mornings

• Short quiz: 10:15–10:25
• Lecture: 10:30–12:00

Grading and course requirements

Receiving the course signature requires successful completion of the corresponding tutorial course BMETE15AF24. 

At the beginning of each lecture, there will be a 10-minute quiz based on the material from the previous lecture. Achieving more than 60% exempts the student from the exam entry question; above 70% and 80%, an offered grade of average (3) or good (4) can be obtained, respectively. To earn an excellent (5), a final exam is required.

The course grade is determined by a written exam. Students who fail the written exam may retake it orally. In both cases, starting the exam requires answering correctly one entry question chosen from a published list.

The written exam consists of basic problems (~55 points) and more difficult bonus problems (~15 points). The pass threshold is 60% of the basic points, while the boundary for excellent is 95% of the basic points.

Oral exam procedure: After correctly answering the entry question, the student will be assigned two topics. If their knowledge of either topic is insufficient, the overall grade will be fail (1).

Reading material and notes

To follow the lectures, the Kibble and Berkshire book is recommended, it tracks the lecture content fairly well, though it does not fully overlap with it, and doesn’t cover continuum mechanics. The notes by Tamás Keszthelyi and János Török are also useful.

Textbook

• Bannerman Kibble and Frank Berkshire: Classical Mechanics (Imperial College Press)

For deeper understanding:

• L.D. Landau, E.M. Lifshitz: Course of Theoretical Physics, Vol. I: Mechanics (Typotex Publishing)

Additional material (in Hungarian)

Keszthelyi Tamás notes

Török_Orosz_Unger notes

Entry questions

Exam topics