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WSU PHYS7110
Methods of Theoretical Physics II
Description: This course helps entry-level graduate students to grasp essential mathematical tools for theoretical physics.
Instructor:
Chun Shen
Room 341, Department of Physics and Astronomy
Topics:
Ordinary and Partial differential equations
Method of Green’s functions
Complex analysis
Fourier and Laplace transforms
Week 1 (Aug. 28 - Aug. 30)
Week 2 (Sep. 3 - Sep. 5)
Week 3 (Sep. 9 - Sep. 13)
Week 4 (Sep. 16 - Sep. 20)
Week 5 (Sep. 23 - Sep. 27)
Week 6 (Sep. 30 - Oct. 4)
Week 7 (Oct. 7 - Oct. 11)
Week 8 (Oct. 14 - Oct. 18)
Week 9 (Oct. 21 - Oct. 25)
Mid-term review (Oct. 28)
Week 10 (Nov. 1 - Nov. 8)
Week 11 (Nov. 11 - Nov. 15)
Week 12 (Nov. 18 - Nov. 22)
Week 13 (Dec. 2 - Dec. 6)
Lecture mini summaries
Final review (Dec. 9)
Homework 1
(Due Sept. 18)
Homework 2
(Due Oct. 2)
Homework 3
(Due Oct. 16)
Homework 4
(Due Nov. 11)
Homework 5
(Due Nov. 25)
Homework 6
(Due Dec. 9)
Solution 1
Solution 2
Solution 3
Solution 4
Solution 5
Solution 6
Numerics
A vibrating string
Series expansion of Bessel function
A vibrating drumhead
Solve ODE numerically
CMB
Thursday 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Room 341 Physics Building
Or by appointment:
chunshen@wayne.edu
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