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Class Schedule
Syllabus
TOC

Main Text

Mathews and Walker "Mathematical Methods of Physics"

Supplementary Texts

Arfken "Mathematical methods for physicists"
Wyld "Mathematical methods for physics"
Volkovyskii , Lunts, and Aramanovich "A collection of problems on complex analysis"
Courant and Hilbert "Methods of mathematical physics"
Tikhonov and Samarskii "Equations of mathematical physics"
Budak, Samarskii, and Tikhonov "A collection of problems in mathematical physics"
Vladimirov "Equations of mathematical physics"
Vladimirov "A collection of problems on equations of mathematical physics"
Bender and Orszag "Advanced mathematical methods for scientists and engineers"

Assignments

Assignment 1
  • Problems 1-1 through 1-41, 1-43, 1-44
    • Assignment 2
  • Problems 2-1 through 2-8, 2-11, 2-12
    • Assignment 3
  • Problems 3-1 through 3-31, 3-33, 3-34, 3-37
    • Assignment 4
  • Problems 4-1 through 4-14
    • Assignment 5
  • Problems 7-1 through 7-19
    • Assignment 6
  • Problems 8-1 through 8-7, 8-9 through 8-18, 8-21 through 8-24, 8-28
    • Assignment 7
  • Problems 9-1 through 9-8, 9-10, 9-12

    • Solutions

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    Solutions 1 (PDF, 1.8 MB - high bandwidth only)
    Solutions 1 (HTML, low bandwidth accessible)
    Problem 1-26 (PDF 85K)
    Solutions 2 (PDF, 200K)
    Solutions 3a (PDF, 220K)
    Solutions 3b (PDF, 286K)
    Solutions 4a (PDF, 795K)
    Solutions 4b (PDF, 797K)
    Solutions 5 (PDF, 1021K)
    Solutions 6 (PDF, 1.4M)
    Solutions 7 (PDF, 874K)

    Extras

    Series solution for Bessel function (PDF, 85K)
    Bessel function - addendum (PDF, 85K)
    Sturm-Liouville - Green's Function (PDF, 348K)
    Sturm-Liouville - Hermitian (PDF, 306K)
    Sturm-Liouville - Remarks (PDF, 169K)
    Generalized Functions (PDF, 967K)
    Chapter 9, Addendum 1 (PDF, 135K)
    Chapter 9, Addendum 2 (PDF, 66K)

    Tests 2002-2003

    Quiz 1 Fall 2002 (PDF, K)
    Quiz 2 Fall 2002 (PDF, K)
    Quiz 3 Fall 2002 (PDF, K)
    Final Fall 2002 (PDF, K)
    Quiz 4 Winter 2003 (PDF, K)
    Quiz 5 Winter 2003 (PDF, K)
    Final Winter 2003 (PDF, K)

    Tests 2001-2002

    Midterm Fall 2001 (PDF, 250K)
    Final Fall 2001 (PDF, 237K)
    Midterm Winter 2002 (PDF, 272K)
    Final Winter 2002 (PDF, 309K)