Physics 231 Home Page
These are resources for students taking Physics 231.
Classroom Handouts
These are mostly postscript images. You should be able to fetch and
print them, though details depend on your browser. In the order handed out.
Those without links are only available in printed form.
- General Information (1/12/96)
- Outline (1/12/96)
- Assignment 1 (1/12/96)
- Orthogonal Functions (1/12/96)
- Green's Functions (1/22/96)
- Assignment 2 (1/22/96)
- Spherical Coordinates (1/24/96)
- Orthogonal Coordinates (1/26/96)
- Assignment 3 (1/29/96)
- Non-Orthogonal Coordinates
(1/29/96)
- Assignment 4 (2/5/96)
- Sample Problems I (2/14/96)
- Test 1 (2/19/96)
- Assignment 5 (2/21/96)
- Assignment 6 (2/28/96)
- Helmholtz Solutions (3/1/96)
- Assignment 7 (3/18/96)
- Legendre Polynomials (3/18/96)
- Assignment 8 (3/25/96)
- Legendre Functions P_nu (3/29/96)
- Split Sphere (3/25/96)
- Sample Problems II (4/1/96)
- Associated Legendres and Spherical
Harmonics (4/1/96)
- Test 2 (4/8/96)
- Assignment 9 (4/10/96)
- Assignment 10 (4/15/96)
- Bessel Function Plots (4/17/96)
- J Bessel Functions (4/17/96)
- I Bessel Functions (4/17/96)
- Operators with Continuous
Sprectra (4/17/96)
- Sample Problems III (4/24/96)
- About the Final (4/24/96)
Mathematica Notebooks
These notebooks are Copyright Richard G. Palmer (1996) and may not
be retrieved, copied, downloaded or otherwise utilized without written
permission of the author. Currently the only authorized
users of these notebooks are the students and faculty of Duke University.
You'll probably need to save them into files, start up
Mathematica, and then open the file(s). The suggested filenames are
shown in parentheses. The notebooks are designed for
Mathematica version 2.2 on NeXT computers. Some formatting
(e.g., Greek letters, subscripts) may not work on all machines.
- Numerical Solution of DEs (NDE.ma)
- Legendre Polynomials (Legendre.ma)
- Spherical Harmonics
(SphericalHarmonics.ma)
- Bessel Functions (Bessel.ma)
Last updated: 16-Jan-03