Week of 11/26
From Physiki
Read Chapter 13 of Boas. I am NOT going to cover separation of variables in Cartesian coordinates in class. I assume you know this. If not, review from my lecture notes (below) or Boas. We will jump right into separation of variables in spherical coordinates.
 Download Scales lecture notes on separation of variables and special functions
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Wikipedia entry on Ernst Chladni
bouncing ball modes and quantum chaos
Laplaces equation in spherical coordinates
But first a refresher on spherical coordinates. The link to Mathworld gives a complete derivation of all the standard derivatives and differential operators in spherical coordinates.
I need feedback from you as to whether you need to see this derived in class.
All about spherical harmonics from MathWorld
 Download 2ddrummodes.nb
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Chladni figures for a guitar front plate
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| Download simple Legendre example
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