Handouts

Mathematical Methods in Physics (PHY 230) - Fall 2002

Handouts

• 1. Special Functions (8/27/02)
• 2. Cylindrical Polar Coordinates (8/27/02)
• 3. Spherical Polar Coordinates (8/27/02)
• 4. Orthogonal Coordinates (8/27/02)
• 5. PDE - Boundary Conditions (9/3/03)
• 6. Helmholtz Equation - Solutions Summary (9/3/02)
• 7. Important ODEs (9/5/02)
• 8. ODE toolbox (9/10/02)
• 9. Legendre Polynomials (10/3/02)
• 10. Fuchs Theorem (9/19/02)
• 11. Power Series for Elementary Functions (9/19/02)
• 12. Orthogonal Functions (9/26/02)
• 13. Orthogonal Functions - Plots (MMA) (9/26/02)
• 14. Sturm-Liouville Theorem (10/3/02)
• 15. Green's Functions - ODE (10/8/02)
• 16. Green's Functions - PDE (10/8/02)
• 17. Green's Functions - Box (10/10/02)
• 18. Convergence Tests (10/17/02)
• 19. Rational Sums (10/17/02)
• 20. Contour Integration - Tools (11/1/02)
• 21. Fourier Series (11/12/02)
• 22. Fourier Transforms (11/12/02)
• 23. Laplace Transforms (11/15/02)
• 24. Combinatorics (11/19/02)
• 25. Probability Distributions - Definitions (11/19/02)
• 26. Important Probability Distributions (11/19/02)
• 27. Moment Generating Functions, etc (11/26/02)
• 28. Bessel J (1/31/03)
• 29. Bessel N (or Y) (1/31/03)
• 30. Bessel I (1/31/03)
• 31. Bessel K (1/31/03)

Overhead Projector/Computer/Video

• Chess/Piano/Basketball (8/27/02)
• Gamma Plots (8/27/02)
• Legendre and Spherical Harmonics Plots (MMA) (9/3/02)
• Bessel Plots (MMA) (9/3/02)
• Separable Systems (MMA) (9/10/02)
• Principal Values (MMA) (11/7/02)
• RLC Laplace Transform (MMA) (11/15/02)