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{{PDF|filename=Linearsystems.pdf|title=John Scales' lecture notes on linear systems}} This book is free and may be freely distributed. | {{PDF|filename=Linearsystems.pdf|title=John Scales' lecture notes on linear systems}} This book is free and may be freely distributed. | ||
| − | Roel Snieder's book [http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales A Guided Tour of Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences, which is published by Cambridge University Press, is freely available to students in PHGN311 for your own personal use. If you would like to buy a hardcopy of this, Professor Snieder can order it for you at discount, only $40. This is hardly any more than it would cost to photocopy it. | + | Roel Snieder's book [http://mesoscopic.mines.edu/~jscales/Snieder_2.pdf A Guided Tour of Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences], which is published by Cambridge University Press, is freely available to students in PHGN311 for your own personal use. If you would like to buy a hardcopy of this, Professor Snieder can order it for you at discount, only $40. This is hardly any more than it would cost to photocopy it. |
==Homework Assignments== | ==Homework Assignments== | ||
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Class Information
course schedule, contact info and grading policy
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For course assistance and discussion, please visit the Math Physics Course Forum
Offices
- John Scales, Meyer Hall 338, (303) 273-3850
- Roel Snieder, Green Center 240F, (303) 273-3456
Supplemental Material
| Download John Scales' lecture notes on linear systems
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Roel Snieder's book A Guided Tour of Mathematical Methods for the Physical Sciences, which is published by Cambridge University Press, is freely available to students in PHGN311 for your own personal use. If you would like to buy a hardcopy of this, Professor Snieder can order it for you at discount, only $40. This is hardly any more than it would cost to photocopy it.
Homework Assignments
NB. For students in the 10:00 section, any late homework should be turned in directly to Michael Bertolli, who is grading them. He has a mailbox in the Physics Department office with the other graduate students.
HW1: Due 8/29 at 5:00. Do the following problems from chapter 1 of Boas: 1.1, 1.4, 1.15, 2.1, 2.6, 4.2, 4.6
For the 9:00 group, this will be due Tuesday September 5 at 5:00.
Week by Week
Week of 8/28:
Mathematica beginners should start here---->. Fire up Mathematica. Click the upper right-hand "help" menu. Select tutorial. Work your way through this tutorial at your own pace.
Our first Mathematica notebook, on power series 8/28/06 Right click and "save link as" to download.
Mathematica resources
First tutorial lesson. Fire up Mathematica. Click the upper right-hand "help" menu. Select tutorial.
Tutorial and exercises from PH Field Session, links, sample notebooks
Mathematica tutorial from Wolfram INC
Useful Mathematica Notebooks
Note: If you choose to use these Mathematica Notebooks as templates for a solution you turn in, please observe the following rules:
- Remove existing comments and section headings and replace them with your own. Be sure to put in a written explanation of what you are doing!
- Make sure that your Notebook runs correctly if saved and re-run from scratch with Mathematica. (New users often generate Notebooks consisting of a random sequence of attempts to simplify expressions, with non-reproducible results because competing variable definitions were used at different times.)
- If you turn in a printout, make sure it is printed `2up', i.e., with two logical Notebook pages per physical sheet. This is easy enough to read without wasting paper.
For help with Mathematica, take a look at Mathematica Tips and Tricks.
