Handouts

Mathematical Methods in Physics (PHY 230) - Fall 2005

Handouts

• H1. Special Functions (8/30/05)
• H2. Gamma Function (8/30/05)
• H3. Dirac Delta Functions (9/1/05)
• H4. Power Series (9/6/05)
• H5. Convergence Tests (9/6/05)
• H6. Rational Sums (9/8/05)
• H7. ODE toolbox (9/13/05)
• H8. Important ODEs (9/19/05)
• H9. Legendre Polynomials (9/19/05)
• H10. Frobenius Method (9/20/05)
• H11. Bessel Functions J and N (9/20/05)
• H12. Orthogonal Functions (9/29/05)
• H13. Orthogonal Functions - Plots (MMA) (9/29/05)
• H14. Sturm-Liouville Theory (10/4/05)
• H15. Complex Vector Spaces (10/6/05)
• H16. Green's Functions - ODE (10/13/05, corrected 10/17/05)
• H17. Cylindrical Polar Coordinates (10/18/05)
• H18. Spherical Polar Coordinates (10/18/05)
• H19. Orthogonal Coordinates (10/18/05)
• H20. PDE - Boundary Conditions (10/20/05)
• H21. Laplace's Equation - Solutions Summary (10/25/05)
• H22. Bessel I and K (10/25/05)
• H23. Helmholtz' Equation - Solutions Summary (10/27/05)
• H24. Fourier Series (11/3/05)
• H25. Fourier Transform (11/7/05)
• H26. Transforms (11/8/05)
• H27. Laplace Transform (11/10/05)
• H28. Complex Variables (11/15/05)
• H29. Contour Integration - Tools (11/17/05)
• H30. Basic Probability (11/22/05)
• H31. Basic Combinatorics (11/22/05)
• H32. Binomial Coefficients (11/22/05)
• H33. Probability Distributions - Definitions (11/29/05)
• H34. Important Probability Distributions (11/29/05)
• H35. Characteristic Functions, Moment Generating Functions, and Cumulants (12/1/05)

Overhead Projector/Computer/Video

• O1. Chess/Piano/Basketball (8/30/05)
• O2. Gamma(z) (MMA) (9/1/05)
• O3. Asymptotic Series for erfc(x) (MMA) (9/8/05)
• O4. Bessel J and N (MMA) (9/22/05)
• O5. Plots of Lab 4 (MMA) (9/22/05)
• O6. Classification of Fixed Points (9/29/05)
• O7. Lorenz Equations (MMA) (9/29/05)
• O8. Legendre Series for a Square Wave (MMA) (9/29/05)
• O9. Bessel Plots (MMA) (10/25/05)
• O10. Legendre and Spherical Harmonics Plots (MMA) (10/27/05)
• O11. Separable Systems (MMA) (10/27/05)