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course schedule, contact info and grading policy

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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

This book is free and may be freely distributed. There are also many other free books at Samizdat Press

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. We will give out the link in class. If you miss this see either Scales or Snieder.

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

HW2

HW3

HW4

HW5

Week by Week

Week of 8/28:

Week of 9/4:

Week of 9/11:

Week of 9/18:

Week of 9/25:

Week of 10/2:

Exam 1 preparation:

Week of 10/9:

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

from IMSAAA

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.