Handouts

Mathematical Methods in Physics (PHY 230) - Fall 2003

Handouts

• H1. Special Functions (8/26/03)
• H2. Convergence Tests (8/28/03)
• H3. Power Series for Elementary Functions (8/28/03)
• H4. Rational Sums (8/28/03)
• H5. Asymptotic Series for erfc(x) (9/4/03)
• H6. Convergence Examples (9/4/03)
• H7. ODE toolbox (9/4/03)
• H8. Legendre Polynomials (9/16/03)
• H9. Important ODEs (9/16/03; corrected 10/26/03)
• H10. Frobenius Method (9/16/03)
• H11. Bessel J (9/18/03)
• H12. Bessel N (9/18/03)
• H13. Orthogonal Functions (9/25/03; corrected 10/23/03)
• H14. Orthogonal Functions - Plots (MMA) (9/25/03)
• H15. Sturm-Liouville Theorem (9/30/03)
• H16. Dirac Delta Functions (10/7/03; corrected 10/30/03)
• H17. Green's Functions - ODE (10/7/03)
• H18. Green's Functions - PDE - Poisson eqn (10/9/03)
• H19. Cylindrical Polar Coordinates (10/16/03)
• H20. Spherical Polar Coordinates (10/16/03)
• H21. Orthogonal Coordinates (10/16/03)
• H22. PDE - Boundary Conditions (10/17/03)
• H23. Laplace's Equation - Solutions Summary (10/17/03)
• H24. Bessel I (10/21/03)
• H25. Bessel K (10/21/03)
• H26. Helmholtz' Equation - Solutions Summary (10/23/03)
• H27. Fourier Series (10/23/03)
• H28. Fourier Transforms (10/30/03)
• H29. Laplace Transforms (10/31/03)
• H30. Complex Functions (11/13/03)
• H31. Contour Integration - Tools (11/13/03)
• H32. Basic Probability (11/18/03)
• H33. Combinatorics (11/18/03)
• H34. Probability Distributions - Definitions (11/18/03)
• H35. Important Probability Distributions (11/18/03)
• H36. Characteristic Functions, Moment Generating Functions, and Cumulants (11/25/03)

Overhead Projector/Computer/Video

• O1. Chess/Piano/Basketball (8/26/03)
• O2. Bessel J and N (MMA) (9/18/03)
• O3. Classification of Fixed Points (9/25/03)
• O4. McQuarrie problem 13.3.8 - plot (MMA) (9/25/03)
• O5. Legendre Series for a Square Wave (MMA) (9/26/03)
• O6. Lorenz Equations (MMA) (9/30/03)
• O7. Bessel Plots (MMA) (10/21/03)
• O8. Separable Systems (MMA) (10/23/03)
• O9. Legendre and Spherical Harmonics Plots (MMA) (10/23/03)
• O10. 3 emails per hours (MMA) (11/20/03)