Lecture: 12:30--1:50 T-Th PSCB 220
Discussion: 11:00--11:50 W MSTB 110 (PC Lab)
- Required Text: Mathematical methods of Physics,
by Matthews and Walker, Benjamin Cummings.
- Recommended Software: Mathematica (Student's edition)
- Recommended E-book: MathematicaHandbook, by Prof. Peter Taborek,
www.MathematicaHandbook.com
- Lower level back-up Text: Mathematical methods in physical sciences, Boas, Wiley
- URL for this course: http://hedrock.ps.uci.edu/212A.html
Assignments : There will be weekly homework assignments and a Final.
All assignments need to be turned in in hardcopy form.
Grading : 40% homework, 60% final.
Topics :
- Introduction to Mathematica
- Complex Numbers
- Analytic Functions
- Contour integration
- Conformal mapping
- Asymptotic series
- Laplace method
- Steepest descent method
- Method of stationary phase
- Ordinary differential equations