View source for PHZ3113: Mathematical Physics - Spring 2009

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|<center><big>'''Mathematical Physics'''</big></center>
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 | '''Credits'''
 | 3
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 | '''Semester'''
 | Spring 2009
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 | '''Course Ref#'''
 | 03752
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 | '''Instructor'''
 | Per Arne Rikvold <br>Room KEN413 <br>(850) 644-6814 <br>prikvold @ fsu.edu
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 | '''Classroom'''
 | HCB317
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 | '''Time'''
 | 11:15AM - 12:05PM <br>M W F
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 | '''Office Hours'''
 | 5:00 - 6:00PM  <br>Thursday <br>Room KEN413
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 | '''Tutorial Sess.'''
 | 5:00 - 6:30 PM <br>Monday <br>Room KEN707
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 | '''Prerequisite'''
 | PHY 2049 <br> PHY-2049C <br> PHY 2054C
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 | '''Corequisite'''
 | MAP 2302 <br> MAP 3305.
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 | '''Textbook'''
 | H.J. Weber and G.B. Arfken, Essential Mathematical Methods for Physicists (Elsevier Academic Press, Amsterdam, 2004)
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 | 25% <br>Weekly <br> Due Wednesdays
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 ! 2 Midterms
 | 20% each <br>Mon, 2/2/2009 <br>Mon, 3/30/2009 
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 ! Final Exam
 | 35% <br>Thur, 4/30/2009 <br>12:30 - 2:30PM <br>Room HCB317 
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 ! Grading
 | A- / B+: 90% <br>B- / C+: 70% <br>C- / D: 50% <br>D / F: 40%
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Mathematics is the language of physics, and in this course we will practice and extend our skills in this language. The emphasis will be on developing intuition by paper-and-pencil analytical work. Working problems is absolutely essential to developing a true understanding of the material. Starting with a brief review of differentiation and integration and the Taylor expansion in one dimension, we go on to study

==Vector calculus==
==Differential equations==
==Curvilinear coordinate systems==
==Linear algebra (matrices and determinants)==
==Series expansions==
==Complex analysis==
==Other Integration Techniques==
specialized techniques of integration, integral transforms, special functions, boundary-value problems, numerical methods.